![]() ![]() JIM BOUTON (Author, "Ball Four"): Thank you, Scott. ![]() Jim Bouton joins us now from member station WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. It also made the Seattle Pilots survive far longer in literature than they did in real life. "Ball Four" has been republished every 10 years or so, and may be for another century. The book made a number of revelations that seem tame today: that young baseball players on the road look at young women that some great players, like Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, didn't drink wheatgrass at night that players popped pills, and baseball executives could be craven and deceptive. It's been acclaimed as one of the best books of the 20th century by the New York Public Library. ![]() That book, "Ball Four," by Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Shecter, was first published in 1970. Then there's the diary of an aging, fading baseball pitcher playing for a team that'll disappear after a year, struggling to hold on to his knuckleball, and the game that has him by the heart-strings. What are some of the great published diaries? Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Pepys, Kenneth Tynan. ![]()
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