![]() ![]() ![]() And there were plenty of warts.īy reading “Ball Four” it was as though we had been transported to baseball’s Garden of Eden, had taken a bite from the apple and our eyes had been opened. ![]() Our heroes were shown to be human, warts and all. The lords of Major League Baseball did not take kindly to Bouton’s book, which amounted to violating every team’s unwritten rule: What happens in the locker room, or in the team hotel or anywhere else two or more players are gathered, remains confidential.īouton violated that rule and was pretty much ostracized for doing so.īut Bouton and his book were a revelation to me and my closest friends, die-hard baseball fans all. I got one of those pushes at age 16, when Jim Bouton’s tell-all book “Ball Four” was published and immediately became the talk of America. There comes a time in every boy’s life where innocence gives way to something else, a knowing that the life isn’t all about school work and friends and finding as much time to play as is humanly possible.Īt that moment, adulthood doesn’t quite smack you in the face, but something provides a gentle push that makes you realize the future will be different soon and you better get ready for it. ![]()
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