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Jim Bouton - Wikipedia. James Alan Bouton ( / ˈbaʊtən /; March 8, 1939 – July 10, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978.
Mar 8, 2011 · Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jim Bouton. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com.
Jul 10, 2019 · Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling —...
Nov 16, 2021 · Jim Bouton was a baseball player who wrote Ball Four, a groundbreaking memoir that exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of the sport. He also spoke out against the Vietnam War, apartheid, and racism, and challenged the conservative norms of his era.
Jul 11, 2019 · Jim Bouton was a fireballing right-hander who won 21 games for the Yankees in 1963 and 1964, but also wrote a controversial book that exposed the secrets of baseball. He died of a brain disease at 80, leaving behind a legacy of challenging the old-school hierarchy and opening up the sport to fans.
Jul 10, 2019 · Jim Bouton, whose controversial book “Ball Four” exposed the personal lives of his baseball teammates, died Wednesday after a bout with vascular dementia, his wife, Paula Kurman, said. He was...
Jul 13, 2019 · R.I.P. to Jim Bouton, who went from an All-Star pitcher to a bestselling author to a baseball pariah to entertainment personality to a beloved and respected baseball figure. He died on July 10, at the age of 80. The ex-pitcher had suffered a severe stroke in 2012, which led to cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a disease…
