Ball four baseball book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The book goes into detail about Bouton’s salary disputes with the New York Yankees in a time where there were no baseball agents and players had to negotiate for the best contract they could wheedle out of management. ![]() He writes about the shenanigans baseball players indulge in during a baseball season. It is written in diary form and gives Jim Bouton’s views on his dealings with general managers, managers and other players. It is one of the fastest reads I have read. I read Ball Four the first time in the 1970’s before reading it again almost forty years later last week. Jim Bouton wrote Ball Four during the 1969 ![]()
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