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Jim Bouton, Author of Tell-All Baseball Memoir ‘Ball Four,’ Dies at 80
Couldn't let this passing go without a word. One of the best sports books ever written.
Hope they buried him with a baseball in his pitching hand.
7/10/19
Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s diary that tainted the game’s wholesome image, died on Wednesday at his home in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. He was 80. His wife, Paula Kurman (who declined to identify his town of residence), said he died after a long struggle with vascular dementia. Bouton had a stroke in 2012, and in 2017 revealed that he had cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a brain disease.
Couldn't let this passing go without a word. One of the best sports books ever written.
Hope they buried him with a baseball in his pitching hand.