Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and ""social leper."" Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don'tordinarily follow baseball.

Ball Four: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Sports & Outdoors

Bouton, Jim

Biographies

Howell Book House

The diary of a major league baseball player during one season reveals the game's venal and foolish aspects

Ball Four

Shecter, Leonard

Coaching

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

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. In fact, Ball Four has been selected by the NY Public Library as one of the "Books of the Century." And David Halberstam writes: "a book deep in the American Vein, so deep in fact that is by no means a sports book." Bouton has written a baseball book about the reality of the game. Thirty years after its publication, it remains as wonderful to read as ever.

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Dell

The diary of a major-league baseball player during one season reveals the game's venal and foolish aspects

Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues

Dell Pub. Co.]

Two expert writers on baseball offer an exciting tale about Sam Ward, an aging minor league pitcher, who gets a chance to pitch in the Majors, and Ernie Kolacka, an umpire, who has agreed to fix the game. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Strike Zone

Literature & Fiction

Asinof, Eliot

Literary

VIKING

A famous expose of baseball behind the scenes has been expanded to include Bouton's comeback to the big leagues, the breakup of his marriage, and his current career as a writer and television personality

Ball Four, Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980

UNKNO

Baseball

Stein & Day Pub

Ball Four Plus Ball Five

Madison Books

Foul Ball is the behind-the-scenes story of Bouton's efforts to save Wahconah Park, one of the oldest ballparks in the United States, located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, not far from his home in the Berkshires. With his trademark wit and distinctive voice, Bouton recounts his battle against the local power elite, who wanted to build a new stadium to replace Wahconah Park, a project the citizens had voted against three different times.But Foul Ball is more than a hilarious romp about saving an old ballpark. In a detailed diary-his first since Ball Four-Bouton takes us along on his wild ride, into the teeth of corporate malfeasance, anti-democratic process, the tyranny of a one-newspaper town, and the real reason why the good old boys wanted to build a new stadium.

Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark

Bulldog Pub

When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don't ordinarily follow baseball.

Ball Four: The Final Pitch

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Ball Four: Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Ball Four

Ball Four

Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues

Strike Zone

Ball Four, Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980

Ball Four, Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980

Ball Four Plus Ball Five

Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark

Ball Four: The Final Pitch