Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don'tordinarily follow baseball.
A book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact it is by no means a sports book" --David Halberstam "Ball Four is a people book, not just a baseball book" --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
JIM BOUTON was an All-Star pitcher and won twenty-one games for the New York Yankees in 1963. In 1964 he won eighteen games and beat the Cardinals twice in the World Series. His diary of the 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros-Ball Four-was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the Books of the Century, a list that included Gone with the Wind, Catch-22, and In Cold Blood. Bouton, who builds stone walls and does motivational speaking, lives in Egremont, Massachusetts, with his wife Paula Kurman.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780020306658 |
| ISBN 10 | 0020306652 |
| Title | Ball Four |
| Author | Jim Bouton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
| Year published | 1990-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |