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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 —...
Jul 11, 2019 · Bouton -- pitcher, famous author, entrepreneur, television sportscaster, actor, inventor, situation-comedy writer, public speaker, champion of old ballparks and vintage baseball, and last but not least, pariah -- died of a brain disease linked to dementia on Wednesday at his home in western Massachusetts.
Nov 16, 2021 · Bouton—who died in 2019 at age 80—wrote Ball Four after his best days as a hard-throwing All-Star pitcher with the New York Yankees were over and he was trying to make a comeback as a knuckleball pitcher. He wanted athletes to speak out for themselves, to refuse to conform, and to defy complacency.
Jul 11, 2019 · Jim Bouton, the New York Yankees pitcher who shocked the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. He was 80.
Jul 11, 2019 · Bouton would pitch for 10 seasons in the majors, with 64 wins and 64 losses including the World Series. He was, perhaps, the most influential average pitcher in major league history, because of...
Apr 26, 2012 · Jim Bouton went on to become a top-flight player. But he became famous, or notorious, for Ball Four, a memoir that described the petty jealousies on the team, as well as camaraderie, raucous ...
Sep 10, 2019 · Seated next to him was another pitcher, Jim Bouton, famous for his tell-all book, “Ball Four.” Bouton was 36 and sticking around because he still loved baseball, even if it didn’t always love...
Jul 12, 2019 · Jim Bouton, the former big-league pitcher better known for his prose than his fastball, died Wednesday at his home in Massachusetts. He was 80. In 1970, Bouton...
