I‘ve read this book at least five times, and just finished listening to the late, great bulldog narrate it — and share updates of his life since the book was published. How is it that I had ALL THE FEELS yet again?
pickOur episode on Jim Bouton's Ball Four just dropped! Although the revelations of baseball culture seem rather tame today, Bouton was a fantastic writer and the book was as entertaining a sports book as I have ever read.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3o6WFSCjvB0TLTX80po0MJ?si=6DLb0gbjS_-ht5yb47sDX...
pickThis week's episode focuses on “Ball Four“ by Jim Bouton. A sensation, when it was released in 1970, we discuss how much Bouton's book still shocks and what seems relatively tame nowadays. A must read for baseball fans but Bouton's talent as a writer makes for an interesting read for not just the devoted fans of America's pastime.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3o6WFSCjvB0TLTX80po0MJ
As if I would pick another #summersport
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For those who care looks like they may have settled!
PLAY BALL!⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️
pickBouton stood next to the greats and held his own, yet was on the periphery even before he published his iconoclastic diary.
He was a ball player, entrepreneur, father, husband, stepfather, inventor, screenwriter, speaker, and a guy who built his own rock walls. He took to life with gusto.
Listening to him read is a treat. He cracks up at some of the old stories.
It‘s no wonder that this was named one of the best books of the 20th century.
In mathematics a distinction is made between the sphere (a two-dimensional closed surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space) and the ball (a three-dimensional shape that includes the sphere as well as everything inside the sphere).
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Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that?
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