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Synopsis
This classic baseball memoir and behind-the-scenes tell-all upset the hero-worshiping press, public, and officials of Major League Baseball when it was first published in the early 1970s--but it has been a perennial seller ever since. Its anecdotes of fellow players on and off the field are filled with humor and the love of the game, and it makes clear that the game of baseball was in the process of change.
| Size | | Length: | 472 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"As it turned out, of course, one might as well have tried to resist free verse. Publishers would continue to put out reverent books about sports heroes--the shelves are filled with hagiographies of everyone from Michael Jordan to Joe Montana--but Bouton had changed the form."
New Yorker - David Remnick (06/10/1996)
"What continues to impress...is Bouton's humor, his eye and ear for detail, his willingness to confess his own vulnerability. These are qualities only rarely on display in books by ballplayers."
New York Times Book Review - Andrew Santella (10/01/2000)
A book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact it is by no means a sports book" —David Halberstam
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"<I>Ball Four</I> is a people book, not just a baseball book." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, <I>The New York Times</I>
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