Christopher’s Reviews > Ball Four > Status Update

Getting to the home stretch of this classic baseball book. Wanted to note here that I think I reached the high point of the book here. Bouton is dealt to the Astros, and suddenly the clouds part and his skies brighten. He gets a start, pitches into the 10th and loses, but still he's happy because he pitched well and his club believed in him. Huge resolving moment with real life analogies.

Update on 2/2. That's 'apparently,' not 'differently.' Stupid autocorrect.

2/2. Also found out from the Wiki that differently Ball Four has been revised a number of times. That means my version, the 1990 20th anniversary edition, is different from the original 1970 paperback my dad used to have. I'm well known to be biased toward the originals.

Auditioning a couple of baseball books--the classic Ball Four by Jim Bouton, or the more modern classic Men at Work by George Will. Bouton wins because his writing is more engaging and less formal than Will. Haven't read a baseball book in a few years.