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Wiley
July 1990
On Sale: July 12, 1990
465 pages
ISBN: 0020306652
EAN: 9780020306658
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a
new epilogue by Jim Bouton. 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.
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