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Ball four the final pitch jim bouton5/29/2023 Edited by sportswriter Leonard Schecter, Ball Four is a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season with the expansion Seattle Pilots. Bouton spent a total of 10 seasons in the big leagues, primarily with the New York Yankees (1962-1968). In the first of our monthly interview series, American Polymath editor Clayton Trutor chats with Jim Bouton, author of the greatest book ever written about baseball, Ball Four (1970). In addition to being a fantastic interviewee, Bouton was generous with his time and couldn’t have been more gracious to a young sportswriter.īelow I present my interview with Bouton in full, as it appeared in July 2009 on American Polymath. I had the honor of interviewing Bouton for a website that I used to run called American Polymath. Jim Bouton, the legendary Yankees pitcher and author of Ball Four, died yesterday at the age of 80.
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