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The original Ball Four was written before I was born so I didn't know any of the characters and I couldn't really relate to them. Expertly weaving the narrative threads of both teams’ seasons, Halberstam brings the major personalities on the field - from switch-hitter Mickey Mantle to pitcher Bob Gibson - to life.

Thank you. Fans, however, loved the book. Mitchell Nathanson, Narrated by:

Bouton's wit is superb. I was pleasantly surprised,Ball Four is funny and sensitive and made more effective with reading by Jim Bouton . It is the best book ever written by a baseball player and the best account of a player’s day-to-day travails during the long baseball season. Michelle Obama, Sprecher: I can pick this book up anytime, anyday, go to a random page and I know I will laugh out loud.

When I saw it pop up on audible I snatched it up. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2015, This was the original expose. Jim Bouton’s disdain for the monopolist owners and their treatment of players should be viewed in the context of rampant anti-establishment culture of the Viet Nam War era. Brilliance Audio; Library Edition (April 2, 2013). But, otherwise, a great reading of a great book by a great man! I revisited this book following the death of Jim Bouton earlier this year, only vaguely remembering what I had enjoyed reading some 40 years ago as a kid. These are just some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of baseball recorded in When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. It wasn’t Jim Bouton’s intent to destroy heroes, but to humanize them. The book recounts his one-side salary negotiations with the Yankees. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked.

Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and 'social leper.' It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. This is the story about what happened to the team when their glory days were behind them.

When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm.

The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. digital,1.4 m/s I am no baseball expert, being a Brit and having little interest in the sport until recently (mistakenly viewing it as a brash simplified version of cricket). Would you listen to another book narrated by Jim Bouton? He comes across as a very affable man. He offers insight into the life of a ballplayer, but also the life of someone trying to support and raise a young family. Today Ball Four has taken on another role--as a time capsule of life in the 60s. It was notorious, far beyond what it deserved in my opinion, but that just speaks to the shallow-mindedness of so many of the people in baseball. The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics), Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball In the Big Leagues, Ball Four, Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980, Inside Pitch: Insiders Reveal How the Ill-Fated Seattle Pilots Got Played into Bankruptcy in One Year, The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife, The Long Season: The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959, Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember, Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Anchor Sports), The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.

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Something went wrong. And serious critics called it an important social document. By: Even as he poked fun at his teammates and managers for their foolishness, you saw that the pot was calling the kettle black, and I can to appreciate that Bouton was both egotistical and self-deprecating, and I decided I really liked the guy.

And his paradoxical quotes are nothing less than national touchstones. Da macht ein Kommissar dem verzweifelten Vater ein unglaubliches Angebot: Er schleust ihn in den Hochsicherheitstrakt der Psychiatrie ein, als falscher Patient, mit einer fingierten Krankenakte. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Marc-Uwe Kling, Sprecher:

I’d recommend ball four-the final pitch (his last edition) to anyone.

Eigentlich bin ich doch mehr der gemütliche, tapsige Typ und überhaupt keine Rampensau. Team owner’s tightfistedness had not improved by 1969. It illustrates the times and personalities really well with humour, realism and disappointments too. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2008. No idea who most of the characters are...No idea who most of the teams are....No idea about most things baseball related...(I'm Irish)Yet I finished the book & wanted to learn everything there is to know about the sport & the man Jim Bouton.So well written & delivered Can recommend highly enough. I knew that it had given me a healthy skepticism of the hero-worship of athletes and an even more skeptical view of sports management and ownership. Ball Four gained notoriety, because it exposed baseball players as girl chasing, drug taking, and beer drinking guys with stunted emotional maturity. plastic,metal,4 3/4 in.,1.4 m/s,mass-produced. ", Baseball book for those who like people, not just the sport, Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2017.

It's his life and no one else but him can tell it as he has here. Als First Lady der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika war sie die erste Afro-Amerikanerin in dieser Position und trug in dieser Rolle maßgeblich dazu bei, das wohl gastfreundlichste und offenste Weiße Haus in der Geschichte des Landes zu schaffen.

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When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. David Halberstam, Narrated by: But there is something particularly funny about it that makes it even better.

Und so bekommen wir endlich Antworten auf die drängendsten Fragen unserer Zeit: War das Känguru wirklich beim Vietcong?

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I really enjoyed the development of Jim as a person after baseball. The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-clearing Brawls: the Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees (Unabridged), The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran. It was named as one of The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century.

The book depicts team owners and general managers as being selfish misers. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed.

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And I remembered that it was funny, but I feared what had been funny to a 12 year old may not hold up. Eigentlich hatte Harry geglaubt, er sei ein ganz normaler Junge. At times, he is absorbed with his own sense of self-importance, trying to figure out why he doesn't get respect from management or teammates. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Those kinds of exposes of the ugly underbelly of professional baseball - each more lurid than the last - are ten-a-penny now.

Heck, one New York Times bestseller published in 2004 was subtitled 'A season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo chasing, and Championship Baseball with...the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform'.

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Serious critics called it an important document.David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written… a book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.”In 1999 Ball Four was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the “Books of the Century.” And Time magazine chose it as one of the "100 Greatest Non-Fiction" books.Besides changing the image of athletes, the book played a role in the economic revolution in pro sports.

The book itself was groundbreaking, received high acclaim and is generally revered throughout the US...but I don’t think you could ever appreciate it fully until you’ve listened to ‘bulldog’ tell it himself. Lawrence S. Ritter, Narrated by: Jim Bouton. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.