Author/knuckleball pitcher Jim Bouton has the humorist's eye for telling, pithy detail, and the memoirist's courage in sharing honest and sometimes unflattering anecdotes about himself and his teammates. 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. "It's a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than three decades.
Description of the book "Ball Four: The Final Pitch": When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. "It is not just a diary of Bouton's 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros," says sportswriter Jim Caple.
Ball Seven, which tells of Bouton's daughter Laurie's death is grippingly sad. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm.
The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with an updated epilogue by Jim Bouton When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it ignited a firestorm of controversy. 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. Current selection is: Hardcover5431. 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.If you would like to share feedback with us about pricing, delivery or other customer service issues, please contact Electrode, Comp-943097947, DC-prod-az-eastus2-15, ENV-prod-a, PROF-PROD, VER-20.0.28, SHA-2ac4706ff105cdd14e67f119c4507301c62e4762, CID-4c561264-c15-173d7f334d2719, Generated: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:38:27 GMT Electrode, Comp-fa3d297f-755d-4584-96ed-2ac9f6346ece, DC-eus2-prod-a3, ENV-prod-a, PROF-PROD, VER-36.5.0, SHA-1e7e562741c42b3e4340c969ae68540802a9ebd4, CID-9f7b95e8-007-173d7fe44df0a7, Generated: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:50:32 GMTError: Please enter a valid ZIP code or city and stateThis button opens a dialog that displays additional images for this product with the option to zoom in or out.
After all, it is the players who fans want to see. Good news — You can still get free 2-day shipping, free pickup, & more.Oops—it’s past time for NextDay delivery by tomorrow.Oops! To call it simply a 'tell-all book' is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue.
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. 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. You may start the book looking for cheap laughs, but I ended it with a genuine appreciation for the half-mental (as Yogi Berra once said) side of the game.The first of the sports tell-all books, Bouton wrote this diary of a baseball season and blew the lid off the culture of baseball in the late '60s, when sportswriters gave athletes their privacy. September 19, 2011 Patrick T Reardon 0.
Ball Four is a high-and-inside fastball that will forever be a journalistic classic. Ball Four: The Final Pitch. 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. 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. Bouton tells his stories with glee, and true baseballers will enjoy his tales of Mickey Mantle, Lou Pinella and Whitey Ford, but everyone can enjoy his trip riding the successes and failures with the the finicky knuckleball. 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. ... And, a year later, World Books brought out Ball Four, by a struggling journeyman pitcher named Jim Bouton. Plus this diary is an artifact of the gone and almost forgotten Seattle Pilots. Very funny, and I read it every year before baseball season starts :-) Warning, potty language :)I recently decided to reread this book and found myself appreciating Jim Bouton's point of view, discretion (yes, discretion) and sense of humor more than I did his pitching when he was a Yankee phenomenon. Ball Four The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." 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. 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. Ball Four: The Final Pitch is the original book plus all the updates, unlike the 20th Anniversary Edition paperback. Book review: Ball Four: The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton. In fact, Ball Four has been selected by the NY Public Library as one of the Books of the Century. Fans liked discovering that the athletes they worshiped were real people. I read the most recent edition which is almost twice as long with Bouton's updates on his career and life.
The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked.
Description of the book "Ball Four: The Final Pitch": When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. "It is not just a diary of Bouton's 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros," says sportswriter Jim Caple.
Ball Seven, which tells of Bouton's daughter Laurie's death is grippingly sad. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm.
The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with an updated epilogue by Jim Bouton When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it ignited a firestorm of controversy. 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. Current selection is: Hardcover5431. 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.If you would like to share feedback with us about pricing, delivery or other customer service issues, please contact Electrode, Comp-943097947, DC-prod-az-eastus2-15, ENV-prod-a, PROF-PROD, VER-20.0.28, SHA-2ac4706ff105cdd14e67f119c4507301c62e4762, CID-4c561264-c15-173d7f334d2719, Generated: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:38:27 GMT Electrode, Comp-fa3d297f-755d-4584-96ed-2ac9f6346ece, DC-eus2-prod-a3, ENV-prod-a, PROF-PROD, VER-36.5.0, SHA-1e7e562741c42b3e4340c969ae68540802a9ebd4, CID-9f7b95e8-007-173d7fe44df0a7, Generated: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:50:32 GMTError: Please enter a valid ZIP code or city and stateThis button opens a dialog that displays additional images for this product with the option to zoom in or out.
After all, it is the players who fans want to see. Good news — You can still get free 2-day shipping, free pickup, & more.Oops—it’s past time for NextDay delivery by tomorrow.Oops! To call it simply a 'tell-all book' is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue.
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. 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. You may start the book looking for cheap laughs, but I ended it with a genuine appreciation for the half-mental (as Yogi Berra once said) side of the game.The first of the sports tell-all books, Bouton wrote this diary of a baseball season and blew the lid off the culture of baseball in the late '60s, when sportswriters gave athletes their privacy. September 19, 2011 Patrick T Reardon 0.
Ball Four is a high-and-inside fastball that will forever be a journalistic classic. Ball Four: The Final Pitch. 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. 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. Bouton tells his stories with glee, and true baseballers will enjoy his tales of Mickey Mantle, Lou Pinella and Whitey Ford, but everyone can enjoy his trip riding the successes and failures with the the finicky knuckleball. 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. ... And, a year later, World Books brought out Ball Four, by a struggling journeyman pitcher named Jim Bouton. Plus this diary is an artifact of the gone and almost forgotten Seattle Pilots. Very funny, and I read it every year before baseball season starts :-) Warning, potty language :)I recently decided to reread this book and found myself appreciating Jim Bouton's point of view, discretion (yes, discretion) and sense of humor more than I did his pitching when he was a Yankee phenomenon. Ball Four The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton available in Trade Paperback on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." 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. 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. Ball Four: The Final Pitch is the original book plus all the updates, unlike the 20th Anniversary Edition paperback. Book review: Ball Four: The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton. In fact, Ball Four has been selected by the NY Public Library as one of the Books of the Century. Fans liked discovering that the athletes they worshiped were real people. I read the most recent edition which is almost twice as long with Bouton's updates on his career and life.
The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked.