In a compelling tale of major league baseball, two men try to reclaim their lives--a minor league player who has one last shot at success and an aging umpire who is planning to fix the game. Reprint.

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Literature & Fiction

Eliot Asinof

Jim Bouton

Literary

Signet

1971, hardcover edition, Morrow, NY. 221 pages. Jim Bouton was a knuckle-ball pitcher. He could also write. Imagine the coming disaster when he told it like it is and published Ball Four, a famous diary of life in and out of town during a baseball season. There was honesty on the page and screams from numerous individuals involved in his very funny account of being a baseball player. Here is his follow-up book and what happened afterwards, with those named who were not very nice when Bouton decided to write another book. Extremely funny, very honest, and readable.

I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally.

William Morrow

When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don't ordinarily follow baseball.

Ball Four

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

AUTHOR SIGNATURE ON 2ND PAGE!! SOME WEAR TO DUSTJACKET, TIGHT BINDING, CLEAN PAGES, WILL SHIP FAST!! B&amp;N EDITION.

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I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally.

Ball Four

Ball Four