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Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues

1 review
Jim Bouton

World Publishing, 1970

A book that changed the sports book genre for the better
Books about sports stars can be dated in two ways. BBF (Before Ball Four) and ABF (After Ball Four). Before this book came out, sports stars were mythologized in print and the books had a cardboard-style sameness to them. According to the BBF books baseball stars such as Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams did nothing but pull for their team and engage in some occasional boyish antics. In ...

Strike Zone

9 reviews
Jim Bouton, Eliot Asinof

Viking Adult, 1994

Great Baseball Novel
This is a great story of a little-used pitcher who gets to start the biggest game of the year and a veteran umpire. The pitcher has two things working against him. He had made a comment at an off-season banquet that offended the umpire, who happens to be working behind the plate for this game. The umpire's best friend is in trouble with gamblers and has asked him to throw the game. It's a ...

Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues

2 reviews
Jim Bouton

Dell Pub Co, 1971

A book that changed the sports book genre for the better
Books about sports stars can be dated in two ways. BBF (Before Ball Four) and ABF (After Ball Four). Before this book came out, sports stars were mythologized in print and the books had a cardboard-style sameness to them. According to the BBF books baseball stars such as Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams did nothing but pull for their team and engage in some occasional boyish antics. In ...

Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark, Plus Part Two

2 reviews
Jim Bouton

The Lyons Press, 2005

Refreshingly Honest and Relevant!
I teach college and have used this book many times in my political science classes. My students have really enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. It is written well and has great documentation. The story is essentially about Bouton and his business partner (and friend) Chip Elitzer's efforts to inject openess into how political decisions are made. Unfortunately, they are met with most of the ...

Ball Four

92 reviews
Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1990

the first to expose how players used the groupies
Jim Bouton is a very bright man who probably could have been a scientist if he didn't go into baseball. In the 1960s when he played nobody wrote colorful exposes of the behind the scenes and road trip life of major league ball players. Bouton was the first with this book. It ended many friendships with teammates and probably broke up his marriage. The book might seem tame by todays standard. ...

Inside Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6, Limited Edition (2nd Edition) (Inside)

31 reviews
Gary D. Bouton, Barbara Bouton, ...

Waite Group Press, 2001

Don't Judge a Book by its Cover!
This book is a complete steal for whatever price it's now selling for. I bought it (not the limited edition, but the original) several years ago used for $8 (including shipping!) and have ever since referred to it as the best Photoshop foundation book around. (Regardless of what version of Photoshop you're currently working in.) Make no mistake about it, this is not a casual read. It's ...

Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark

21 reviews
Jim Bouton

Bulldog Publishing (MA), 2003

You will pull your hair out
This book is Erin Brockovich, the Insider, It's a Wonderful Life, A Civil Action, and Field of Dreams all rolled into one awesome book. I just read this in two days. It is both fantastic and infuriating. I am so mad I want to go up to Pittsfield and shoot some of these people. The situation faced by Bouton is so frustrating; yet this kind of behavior goes on every day all over America. The book ...

Ball Four, Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980

2 reviews
Jim Bouton

Stein & Day Pub, 1982

One of the best sports books ever, vilified when first released now understood to have been good for baseball
When the book "Ball Four" first came out in 1970, it created a major sensation. For it was the first sports book that presented athletes in any light other than as the shining, pristine hero. There had been a tradition in baseball that books "written" by athletes were not to ever mention the dubious escapades of the players. "Ball Four" tore off that veneer, exposing some very questionable ...

I'm glad you didn't take it personally

4 reviews
Jim Bouton, Leonard Shecter

how has such a great book dropped into obscurity?
This relatively small but engaging book tells the story of Bouton's last half season (not counting his comeback in '78), his work in broadcasting, and all the aftermath of publishing _Ball Four_. It reads exactly like a continuation of _Ball Four_, and in fact I'm surprised that the two have never been amalgamated into a single edition. Here Bouton shares the ways in which his first book changed ...

I MANAGED GOOD, BUT BOY DID THEY PLAY BAD

1 review
Jim Bouton

Playboy, 1973

A must for baseball fans
Jim Bouton, author of "Ball Four" and "I'm Glad You Didn't Take it Personally" has given us a third book, this one edited by Bouton and contains stories of several baseball managers, not all famous. Bouton writes the introduction for the stories and provides one story himself. It's a great look on managers and is faithful in tone to his other books. If you read "Ball Four" you'll appreciate ...

Ball Four
Jim Bouton

Dell Publishing Company, 1970

The controversial bestseller that tears the cover off the biggest names in baseball.

Are You Ready For This One? WHO WAS HARRY STEINFELDT? And Other Baseball Trivia Questions by Bert Randolph ...
Bert Randolph Sugar

Playboy Press, 1976

Are You Ready For This One? WHO WAS HARRY STEINFELDT? And Other Baseball Trivia Questions by Bert Randolph Sugar A 1976 PLAYBOY PRESS Mass-Market Paperback.

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