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Jim Bouton - NY Yankees: (Signed Book - "Ball Four") - $3 (Long Valley)
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Signed & inscribed by - Jim Bouton ... autograph in (blue marker) ... guaranteed to pass JSA or PSA certification!!
... Ball Four is a combination diary of Bouton's 1969 season & memoir of his years with the NY Yankees, Seattle Pilots & Houston Astros. Despite its controversy at the time (1970), with baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn's attempts to discredit it & label it as detrimental to the sport, it's considered to be one of the most important sports books ever written and the only sports-themed book to make the NY Public Library's 1996 list of Books of the Century. It's also listed in Time magazine's 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time.
This 20th Anniversary Edition features ... a new epilogue by Bouton, detailing his career as an inventor, his battles with the Wrigley Co. over bubble gum, his take on the Pete Rose controversy, and how baseball looks two decades after he changed its public image forever!
... James Alan Bouton (March 8, 1939 – July 10, 2019) was an American professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the NY Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros & Atlanta Braves between 1962-1978. He was also a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew. Bouton was a member of the 1962 World Series champions, appeared in the 1963 MLB All-Star Game, and won both of his starts in the 1964 World Series. Later in his career, he developed & threw a knuckleball.