Ball Four (RosettaBooks Sports Classics) by Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter

Ball Four (RosettaBooks Sports Classics)

Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter

496 pages first pub 1970 (view editions)

nonfiction memoir sports informative slow-paced
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When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a...

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