![]() Is it a great book? It terms of impact, yes.Īs John Feinstein, author of “A Season on the Brink,” his journal of the 1987 season he spent with Bobby Knight and the Indiana University basketball team, said in a tribute to Bouton in The Washington Post, “Bouton proved the importance of firsthand reporting, of truly getting inside a subject. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It is the only sports book on the list. The book, first published in 1970, has now sold five million copies, In 1995 the New York Public Library selected “Ball Four” as one of about 150 Books of the Century, alongside such works as Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” and F. If you are of the same generation as modern-day major leaguers, it’s possible you’ve never heard of Bouton or “Ball Four.” That’s what sportswriter Thom Loverro of the Washington Times discovered last year when he queried some of the Washington Nationals. ![]() When Jim Bouton passed away earlier this month at age 80 from a brain disease linked to dementia, it prompted me to reread “Ball Four,” the iconic diary of the pitcher’s 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and the Houston Astros. ![]()
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