Watching the Old-Timers’ Day Game with Jim Bouton, Who Wasn’t Invited

On a sunny day in mid-June, the New York Yankees celebrated Old-Timers’ Day for the seventieth time. A gaggle of ex-pinstripers, some famous, others less so, returned to the house that Ruth built, that Steinbrenner rebuilt, and that Jeter moved across the street. More than a hundred miles away, in western Massachusetts, on the property of his large, lushly landscaped home, the former Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton threw a bucket of balls against a cinderblock wall that he built in his back yard, aiming each pitch at his hand-painted strike zone and hitting it more often than not. Fastballs and knucklers, mostly.

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