![]() ![]() The book was extremely controversial when released. Pitching for the expansion Seattle Pilots (who would move to Milwaukee and become the Brewers the next season) and eventually being traded to the Houston Astros, Bouton begins journaling his season in the offseason before the season and ends it in the winter after the 1969 season. He won 39 games in 19 and then his career, and the Yankees’ dynasty, went downhill. He’d spent the previous season in the minor leagues after beginning his career in 1962 with the New York Yankees. Ball Four was written during the 1969 season by Bouton, a knuckleball pitcher trying to get his career back on track. Having recently reread Ball Four by Jim Bouton, it’s hard not to share the humor and wit of one of baseball’s finest books. ![]()
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