Ball Four
The Final Pitch
Jim Bouton
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 ...
Publish Date
2014
April 1
First Published in 1970
Goodreads rating
4.02
ISBN
0021898306654
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Recommendations
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Recommendations
Aug 08, 2020
Get back into baseball with the best books on the sport:
The Game, Jon Pessah
Ball Four, Jim Bouton
Veeck as in Wreck, Bill Veeck
The Wrong Stuff, Bill Lee
The Bronx Zoo, Sparky Lyle
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn
Five Seasons, Roger Angell
Moneyball, Michael Lewis – sourceJan 02, 2021
Some favorite sports books:
The Game, Dryden
The Summer Game, Angell
The Breaks of the Game, Halberstam
Wait Till Next Year, William Goldman
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
A Fan’s Notes, Exley
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
Fever Pitch, Hornby
Ball Four, Bouton
Cheers 🍻 – sourceJul 11, 2019
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." — Jim Bouton
If you haven't read Ball Four, well, you really need to. Best baseball book ever written. Yes, that includes Lords of the Realm. – sourceJul 11, 2019
Damn. Jim Bouton.
"Ball Four" is the best baseball book ever written. It blew my 13-year-old mind and I've read it every few years since. It always holds up.
Meeting him at a SABR convention in Seattle is something I'll never forget. An absolute legend. – source