Book · 1970 · Nonfiction

Ball Four

Name: Ball Four
Author: Jim Bouton

The Final Pitch

Jim Bouton

Turner · 540 pages

★ 5.5 editorial score

A knuckleballer hanging on with an expansion team, Bouton kept a diary of the 1969 season and put in the amphetamines, the womanizing, and Mantle drunk. Baseball's commissioner demanded he call it fiction.

Genre

Sports Autobiography and memoir

Subject

Baseball

Time

1970

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