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Bouton - The Life of a Baseball Original (Paperback)
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Bouton - The Life of a Baseball Original (Paperback)
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Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest New
York Times 2020 Summer Reading List From the day he first stepped
into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939-2019) was the sports
world's deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind
the all-American boy-next-door good looks lurked a maverick with a
signature style. Whether it was his frank talk about player
salaries and mistreatment by management, his passionate advocacy of
progressive politics, or his efforts to convince the United States
to boycott the 1968 Olympics, Bouton confronted the conservative
sports world and compelled it to catch up with a rapidly changing
American society. In Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original,
Mitchell Nathanson gives readers a look at Bouton's remarkable
life. He tells the unlikely story of how Bouton's Ball Four,
perhaps the greatest baseball book of all time, came into being,
how it was received, and how it forever changed the way we view not
only sports books but professional sports as a whole. Based on
wide-ranging interviews Nathanson conducted with Bouton, family,
friends, and others, he provides an intimate, inside account of
Bouton's life. Nathanson provides insight as to why Bouton saw the
world the way he did, why he was so different from the thousands of
players who came before him, and how, in the cliquey, cold,
bottom-line world of professional baseball, Bouton managed to be
both an insider and an outsider all at once.
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