Ball Four
The Final Pitch
by Jim Bouton
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Recommended by 8 notable people, including Ben Shapiro and Michael Bierut
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Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Sports Biographies, Sports, and Baseball.
The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with a new prologue by Jim Bouton When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to ...
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Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Sports Biographies, Sports, and Baseball.
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