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	Jim Bouton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Alan Bouton (born March 8, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey) was a Major League Baseball player and author of the controversial baseball book Ball Four, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the New York Yankees.
		Bouton started his major league career in 1962 with the Yankees, where his tenacity earned him the nickname "Bulldog." In the subsequent two seasons the hard-throwing right-hander, known for his cap flying off at the completion of his delivery to the plate, won 21 and 18 games and appeared in the 1963 All Star Game.
		Bouton was winless for a White Sox farm club; a stint in the Mexican League and a return to Portland followed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Bouton (1475 words)

	downstreet.net-Jim Bouton
		Early in his account Bouton explores in some detail the recent history of the clever, but mostly cynical way, rival baseball club owners and public officials have whipsawed communities into believing that their only hope for having a team was to spend scarce public funds on building new parks.
		As the journal relates the story from Bouton’s singular perspective during that summer and fall until the last entry on October 4, it seems clear that the deck is stacked against Bouton and his grand design for baseball in the Berkshires.
		Bouton’s book is Exhibit A, B and C of the bitter consequences for a community of a newspaper without principles.
	www.downstreet.net /archives/JimBouton.htm (1342 words)

	jim bouton, sports speaker, baseball, motivational
		Jim Bouton is a highly noted motivational speaker, sports speaker and baseball speaker.
		Jim Bouton, a motivational speaker who warmed the bench in high school and though nicknamed "Warm Up Bouton," was encouraged by guidance counselor to pursue a career as a forest ranger.
		Jim Bouton, a sports speaker that draws upon his experience as an all-star pitcher and World Series winner to deliver inspiring motivational speaker, sports speaker and baseball speaker presentations.
	www.speakersbureau.com /jim-bouton.htm (247 words)

	Fred A. Bernstein: Now Pitching For Wahconah, Jim Bouton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bouton is fond of such oddities as plastic owls dangling from the rafters to ward off pigeons.
		Bouton enlisted two partners to try and raise $1.5 million privately to renovate Wahconah into what he called ''a must-see stopover in the triangle formed by Cooperstown, Fenway and Yankee Stadium,'' with 14 corrugated-metal ''not-so-luxury boxes'' and a ''taste of the Berkshires'' food court.
		Bouton, in October 2001, when Pittsfield's parks commission leased Wahconah to a rival, Jonathan Fleisig, a Manhattan trader of energy futures, who already owned a team and promised to move it to Wahconah.
	www.fredbernstein.com /articles/display.asp?id=46 (1515 words)

	The Baseball Reliquary - Jim Bouton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bouton came up with a sore arm in 1965 and, with his fastball gone, won only nine games in the next four seasons with the Bronx Bombers, before being shipped off to that baseball Siberia in Seattle, Washington.
		While attempting to resurrect his career in 1969 as a knuckleball pitcher with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros, Bouton began writing a diary during the season on notebook paper, hotel stationery, popcorn boxes, ticket stubs, coasters, and anything else that was handy.
		Bouton would eventually pen a sequel to Ball Four called I’m Glad You Didn’t Take It Personally, and even tried his hand at baseball fiction in 1994 by co-writing Strike Zone with Eliot Asinof.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /bouton.htm (285 words)

	ESPN.com: SPORTSNATION - Chat-4204
		Jim Bouton: Maybe the clubhouses aren't as much fun today because many of the players have had the homogenizing experience of college, and they are surrounded by coaches and managers.
		Jim Bouton: There are always a few knuckleballers who carry on the tradition, and we all root for each other, because we all have shared the experience of standing on the mound with nothing but flutters.
		Jim Bouton: I think the lore of the Pilots is too closely connected with the book Ball Four and also too closely connected with the lawsuit that Seattle had to file against Major League Baseball when MLB pulled the team out in 1970.
	proxy.espn.go.com /chat/chatESPN?event_id=4204 (2790 words)

	ESPN.com - Jim Bouton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Since Bouton deserves much, if not all, of the credit for blowing the lid off greenies, the sex lives of ballplayers and dumb moves by baseball honchos, Page 2 thought it would be a good time to see what he thinks of what's going on in today's chaotic version of the U.S. national pastime.
		Bouton: It has a chance, because it's a diary, and lots of the things people say in it are hysterical, and it's readable.
		Bouton: I didn't like his ideas about contraction, but I don't think it would be a bad idea if you contracted the worst team in baseball, which may be the Brewers.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1390525&type=page2Story (1578 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. Bill Moyers talks to Jim Bouton \| PBS
		BOUTON: And that they knew was polluted, and they never told the people it was polluted.
		BOUTON: FOUL BALL is a case study of what can happen when a distant media conglomerate owns the only daily newspaper in town.
		BOUTON: I got scared because of the power that I saw in the local daily newspaper having so much power over the community, which I never realized until I got involved with the stadium issue.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_bouton.html (2909 words)

	Amazon.com: Ball Four: Books: Jim Bouton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bouton is convinced that his other stuff is basically gone, and the only way he's going to hang on is if he relies on the knuckler, and he wants to be left alone to concentrate on that pitch.
		Bouton is a hero to everyone who has ever been fed up with their teachers, their boss, or "the establishment" at large, because many readers find it cathartic to read someone's rantings against stodgy authority figures.
		Bouton was a former phenom whose fastball secured him a spot on the Yankees roster in the early Sixties, but by the time of the 1969 season he was struggling to find a new pitch to accomadate the sore arm that he acquired in place of that fastball.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0020306652?v=glance (3178 words)

	jim bouton personal appearances, baseball, representation, Jim Bouton
		In 1970 Jim Bouton retired from baseball and became a TV sportscaster in New York where he helped WABC-TV and then WCBS-TV climb to 1st place in the ratings.
		In 1996 Jim Bouton received the highest honor of his career when he was featured in The Sports 100, "The One Hundred Most Important People in American Sports History," published by Macmillan.
		Jim Bouton's first novel, Strike Zone, is now in paperback, is a frequent guest on radio and television.
	www.sportsstarsusa.com /baseball/bouton_jim.html (532 words)

	Jim Bouton
		Gambling his television career for a dream, Bouton rode hot buses and ate cold hamburgers for two years in the minor leagues before he was called up to the Atlanta Braves.
		In 1996 Bouton received the highest honor of his career when he was featured in The Sports 100, “The One Hundred Most Important People in American Sports History,” published by Macmillan.
		Bouton, whose first novel, Strike Zone, just came out in paperback, is a frequent guest on radio and television.
	www.lecturenow.com /People/JimBouton.htm (404 words)

	Ball Four Book: Interview with Jim Bouton
		Bouton finished his career with the Houston Astros and Seattle Pilots before retiring in 1970.
		Jim Bouton was a 21-game winner for the Yankees in 1963 and a delegate for George McGovern in 1972.
		The column must have touched a nerve in the Bronx because Bouton was finally invited back to Yankee Stadium, 30 years after his last Yankee win, and just a year after his retirement from Momma's Pizza of the Albany Twilight League, his final, semi-pro farewell to baseball.
	www.ballfourbook.com /interview.shtml (803 words)

	Jim Bouton - BR Bullpen
		Jim Bouton transformed himself from a fireballer to a knuckleballer midway through his career.
		Bouton, despite his successful career, will forever be better known for Ball Four, a book consisting of diary entries describing daily life in the game.
		Commissioner Bowie Kuhn even tried to get Bouton to sign a written apology and claim that the book's events were fake but Bouton, true to his hard-headed nature, refused.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Jim_Bouton (174 words)

	ESPN.com - Major League Baseball - A great -- and important -- book
		Editor's note: In 1969, Jim Bouton was a former World Series hero with the New York Yankees, now on his last legs as a big leaguer and trying to survive with the expansion Seattle Pilots as a knuckleball pitcher.
		Bouton wrote about Mickey Mantle playing while hung over, guys popping "greenies" for a little extra energy, teammates criticizing their manager or sleeping around while on road trips.
		Jim didn't know me from Adam, but he was wonderful, could not have been more cooperative, and we've been very close friends since then.
	espn.go.com /mlb/ballfour/neyer.html (1335 words)

	Catching up with … Jim Bouton former 20-game winner with the Yankees: ex-big leaguer recalls his days as a young ...
		Bouton was vilified by fans, players and most important, the Yankees, after "Ball Four" came out, all of whom thought he'd betrayed a sacred locker room trust.
		Bouton has since taken part in several of these ceremonies and it was against this backdrop, in the "House That Ruth Built," that he painted a picture about life as a young Yankee prospect.
		Bouton earned $7,000 during his 1962 rookie season, signing a contract on the clubhouse table literally minutes before taking the field.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_62/ai_95915325 (553 words)

	Ball Four Book: Reviews of Ball Four by Jim Bouton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Jim Bouton allows us into his family life and lets us share his joy and despare regarding his special gift from son Michael on fathers day and the tragic loss of daughter Laurie.
		Bouton's accounts of how the national pastime was spent on and off the field allow us all to see that ball players are just that and that they have lives.
		Jim Bouton must be one of the must honest and straightforward writers on this planet.
	www.velocitynyc.com /ballfour/reviews.shtml (2027 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Jim Bouton (seriously) raps steroids
		Jim Bouton, who pitched for the Seattle Pilots in 1969, greets a fan at the Society for American Baseball Research convention.
		It was Jim Bouton day at the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) convention Friday, and as avid readers of "Ball Four" would expect, he was hilarious.
		Bouton scandalized the baseball world in 1970 with his depiction in "Ball Four" of players popping amphetamines, dubbed "greenies." But he said Friday that steroids are far more insidious than greenies.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2003097905_sabr01.html (913 words)

	NOW with David Brancaccio. Politics & Economy. Jim Bouton \| PBS
		Bill Moyers interviews author and former major league baseball pitcher Jim Bouton about the influence of Big Media on his crusade to save an historic baseball park in Massachusetts.
		Jim Bouton's writing career started in 1969 with BALL FOUR, the funny, controversial, all-time bestseller that revealed baseball players as human beings.
		At that time, Bouton had already won many games as a major league pitcher for the New York Yankees, making the all-star team in 1963 and beating the Cardinals twice in the 1964 World Series.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/bouton.html (302 words)

	Jim Bouton's madcap tale of his Seattle Pilots' days still hilarious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Yet this daily diary of Bouton's 1969 season is mainly remembered for its madcap glimpse of a wacky collection of losers known as the Seattle Pilots in their first and only year of existence.
		Bouton's wicked wit and passion for detail did much to enliven the pages of "Ball Four." But what really made the book so appealing was that Bouton, once a budding star for the Yankees, was no super nova for the Pilots and thus brought a bemused detachment to his observations.
		But what stands out most in the new epilogue is Bouton's grappling with the death of his beloved daughter, Laurie, in a 1997 automobile accident at the age of 31.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /allstar/30133_book06.shtml (1073 words)

	New York Daily News - Baseball - Filip Bondy: Boomer book can't get to first base with 'Ball Four' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bouton's book was both more specific and more discerning than Wells' opus, which is important.
		Bouton kept his own verbal diary, talking into a tape recorder each day, spreading out his notes on the tables and beds, wherever the season took him.
		Bouton is coming out with a new book this summer, "Foul Ball," about his efforts to rescue an aging minor-league ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass.
	www.nydailynews.com /sports/baseball/story/64278p-59882c.html (937 words)

	Jim Bouton Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Jim Bouton was born on Wednesday, March 8, 1939, in Newark, New Jersey.
		Bouton was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 22, 1962, with the New York Yankees.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Jim Bouton baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=boutoji01 (276 words)

	Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ball Park, by Jim Bouton, reviewed.
		She means that Bouton -- who has lived in the area for only 10 years -- has put his finger on the dirty politics in Pittsfield, MA.
		Bouton and Elitzer are major players, after all, and that means they have good, competitive instincts.
		(And Bouton is a good writer; his "Ball Four" is on the New York Public Library's list of the most important books of the 20th century.) Something told them, when their plan was not appreciated, that a lot was wrong in Mudville.
	www.newberkshire.com /reviews/03/foul.html (727 words)

	Jim Bouton - Biography
		Jim Bouton rose from a benchwarmer in high school to an all-star pitcher and a World Series winner.
		Bouton retired from baseball in 1970 and became a sportscaster for WABC-TV in New York where he helped Eyewitness News climb to first place in the ratings.
		Bouton believes in focusing on the process as a way to achieve goals.
	www.speakersbureau.com /speakers/bouton/bio.htm (755 words)

	Powell's Books - Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark by Jim Bouton
		Jim Bouton had a revolutionary plan to save one of the oldest ballparks in America.
		Enter Bouton and his partners with the best deal ever offered to a community — a locally owned professional baseball team for a fully restored city owned ballpark at no cost to the taxpayers.
		Foul Ball is the behind-the-scenes story of Bouton's efforts to save Wahconah Park, one of the oldest ball-parks in the United States, located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, not far from his home in the Berkshires.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0970911718-2 (568 words)

	Affiliate Summit 2006 Speakers - Jim Bouton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The goal of becoming a major league pitcher was "unrealistic" so he did his Career Week essay on becoming a forest ranger.
		In 1998, after 28 years, Bouton was finally invited to Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium when his son Michael wrote a letter to The New York Times saying the Yankees should forgive his dad for having written Ball Four.
		Bouton, who lives in Massachusetts with his wife Paula Kurman, is a frequent guest on radio and television.
	www.affiliatesummit.com /jim_bouton.shtml (494 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / Righthander Jim Bouton of the Yankees remembers a storied rivalry
		Back when I pitched for the Yankees, we'd read in the papers that teams were so awed by our reputation they would roll over and play dead against us.
		I once met Debi Little at a book signing (she was promoting one by the Red Sox wives) and she seemed quite sane.
		Jim Bouton pitched for the Yankees from 1962-68 and authored the groundbreaking 1970 book "Ball Four." He has just published a new book "Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark."
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2003/10/08/righthander_jim_bouton_of_the_yankees_remembers_a_storied_rivalry (1151 words)

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