![]() ![]() ![]() It was relevant, it was irreverent, insulting to many of the book’s subjects identified by name, but most of all…it was just funny. ![]() I know I read it 50 times during my junior and senior year at Ohio State. Once upon a time, when it first came out, I read it so incessantly that I knew every story in the book and could cite the page on which it appeared. I was rummaging through a drawer full of stuff last week, and there it was: A dog-eared, well-used paper edition of Ball Four, the 1972 blockbuster book on baseball by former New York Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton. Remembrances of a face-to-face meeting with former New York Yankee, and author of the blockbuster best-seller ‘Ball Four’, Jim Bouton.) Such as this one originally shared in July of 2014, one of those minor league baseball experiences you never forget, and in this case…a most unforgettable person. Note: From time to time we relive stories previously published, simply because they’re good stories. I was once lucky enough to see Jim Bouton and his knuckleball…eye to eye! My signed copy of his book, Ball Four, is more important to me than most other signed books. He won two games against the Cardinals in the ’64 World Series. ![]() Jim Bouton, as he appeared with the New York Yankees in 1964. ![]()
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