![]() This included candid accounts of some of the sport’s biggest names, like Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle. In telling, players routinely cheated on their wives on road trips, devised intricate plans to peek under women’s skirts or spy on them through hotel windows, spoke in casual vulgarities, drank to excess and swallowed amphetamines as if they were M&Ms. Bouton’s most resonant connection with baseball, however, comes less from the way he played the game and more from what he had to say about the sport in his infamous memoir Ball Four.Īfter Bouton’s death in 2019, Bruce Weber at The New York Times summarized just why the book had had such an impact: ![]() The highlights of his time as a player included an appearance in the 1963 All-Star Game. ![]() ![]() Jim Bouton’s career in professional baseball encompassed most of the 1960s, as well as a brief return to the sport in 1978. ![]()
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