But Bouton never lost the bug for baseball and began his comeback in the minors by developing his knuckleball. One of his stops was the independent league Portland Mavericks, which perfectly fit a ...

Jim Bouton, one of baseball's most influential bad boys, is the subject of Mitchell Nathanson's admiring biography, "Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original." Although he was a superb pitcher in his ...

I'm 30 years old, and I have these dreams is how Jim Bouton opened his 1970 book "Ball Four," which a lot of young fans read under the covers by flashlight, laughing instead of sleeping and learning ...

Fifty years ago, a young pitcher won his first major league game for the New York Yankees. Jim Bouton went on to become a top-flight player. But... 'Ball Four': The Book That Changed Baseball Fifty ...

Former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton has died at 80 after a battle with dementia. The New York Daily News first reported his death. His wife Paula Kurman confirmed the news to the Washington ...

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Jim Bouton is a former Major League Baseball player and the author of the controversial baseball book *Ball Four*, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the New ...

Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, by Mitchell Nathanson, University of Nebraska Press, 409 pages, $34.95 The best book ever written about baseball is Ball Four, Jim Bouton's irreverent look at ...

The best thing about baseball happens also to be the worst thing about baseball—its adherents’ almost pathological aversion to change. This year, however, Major League Baseball officials have been ...

Jim Bouton the pitcher was famous for a time for a few successful World Series appearances as a New York Yankee in the early 1960s. But Jim Bouton’s legacy was minted as a writer, and he reveled in ...

During the coronavirus shutdown, each day we will bring you a recommendation from The Post’s Peter Botte for a sports movie, TV show or book that perhaps was before your time or somehow slipped ...

Jim Bouton the pitcher was famous for a time for a few successful World Series appearances as a New York Yankee in the early 1960s. But Jim Bouton’s legacy was minted as a writer, and he reveled in ...