Ball Four uses gutter talk, no doubt accurately echoing the language players often use, but such use did not repel me as the same type of use in some books does, since I knew Bouton was trying to give a realistic account of life as a player. Ball Four The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. After all, it is the players who fans want to see.

Bouton has written a baseball book about the reality of the game. Ball Four is a baseball classic, a number one bestseller when it was published; it still is in demand throughout the U.S. Now in a new updated hardcover edition, Ball Four will reach a whole new generation of avid baseball fans. It was even banned by a few libraries. Historians understood the value of the book's depth and honesty. Ball Four The Final Pitch, by Jim Bouton (read 13 Dec 2016) I have long wanted to read Ball Four, since it so famous a book. Current selection is: Hardcover5431. Please enable JavaScript in your browser and reload the page. With my interest in major league baseball gloriously renewed in this fantastic year of Cubs glory, I thought this would be a good time to read it. Ball Four uses gutter talk, no doubt accurately echoing the language players often use, but such use did not repel me as the same type of use in some books does, since I knew Bouton was trying to give a realistic account of life as a player. The edition of the book I read came out in 2014 and includes not only Ball Four (published first in 1970) but Ball Five,published ten years later and Ball Six published 20 years later and Ball Seven published 30 years later and an Epilogue dated April 2014. Shop now. I found this book a thoroughly fascinating insight into life as a player and the New York Public library was right to include it in their 100 Books of the Century.list.I've always heard this was one of, if not the best, baseball memoirs, but I find Bouton somewhat unlikable and the book itself a bit boring.5431. But it's all the more fun, because Bouton is a character I want to know more about and the further you read into the book the more you feel, as Bouton puts it, like family.Should be read by all baseball fans, Ball Four is an inside look at a baseball life and the characters that comprise it. The edition of the book I read came out in 2014 and includes not only Ball Four (published first in 1970) but Ball Five,published ten years later and Ball Six published 20 years later and Ball Seven published 30 years later and an Epilogue dated April 2014. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn't read the book, denounced it. Besides changing the public image of athletes, the book played a role in the economic revolution in professional sports. After all, it is the players who fans want to see. Description of the book "Ball Four: The Final Pitch": When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. One is struck by the salaries which players got in those days. Ball Seven, which tells of Bouton's daughter Laurie's death is grippingly sad. With my interest in major league baseball gloriously renewed in this fantastic year of Cubs glory, I thought this would be a good time to read it.

When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. I found I enjoyed the book a lot, and it was often LOL funny and I was always glad to read it and not hoping it would be finished. I read the most recent edition which is almost twice as long with Bouton's updates on his career and life.
I frankly had forgotten there was such a team as the Seattle Pilots--they existed only in 1969 and I have not in the years since my youth paid much attention to the American League--but that is the team which Bouton played for during most of the 1969 season, being traded to Houston in August 1969.

For the updated edition of this historic book, Bouton wrote a new epilogue, detailing his perspective on how baseball has changed since the last edition was released.I couldn't tell you who won last year's World Series, because I don't follow baseball. Buy now. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Please take a minute to review our Due to high volume, we can't respond to individual comments. Bouton is a thoughtful, insightful writer and incredibly funny. when it’s hard to concentrate on reading. I found this book a thoroughly fascinating insight into life as a player and the New York Public library was right to include it in their 100 Books of the Century.list.This is the classic baseball "behind-the-scenes" book. We get it: There are just days (weeks, years?) September 19, 2011 Patrick T Reardon 0. One is struck by the salaries which players got in those days. And David Halberstam writes: a book deep in the American Vein, so deep in fact that is by no means a sports book. In Ball Seven Bouton comments on whether one should deplore what players get these days and what he says makes a lot of sense--they get what they are able to induce owners to pay them.


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