(Original Caption) Busch Stadium: A determined Yankee is Jim Bouton, shown as he pitches against Cardinals in 6th game of World Series. Bettmann Archive Both the world of baseball and the world of ...

Nobody expected a sub-.500 pitcher's renegade memoir about baseball’s subculture to reach 5 million copies in circulation; however, Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four” bucked the expectations set by the 5,000 ...

Jim Bouton, the sore-armed pitcher for the New York Yankees and other teams whose "Ball Four" is widely considered the most important book about American sports ever written, died Wednesday, Major ...

Former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton has died at 80 after a battle with dementia. The New York Daily News first reported his death. His wife Paula Kurman confirmed the news to the Washington ...

The passing on Wednesday of baseball’s great iconoclast, Jim Bouton, has led to tales being retold of his seminal work, “Ball Four.” It angered the game’s Establishment, upended the way we know ...

Jim Bouton, whose groundbreaking book Ball Four was one of the first tell-all books in sports, has died at age 80. He passed today in Massachusetts from a brain disease linked to dementia. Bouton had ...

Jim Bouton’s death at the age of 80 should cause us to pause and remember the pitcher who changed sports history. Jim Bouton, the New York Yankees pitcher who shocked the conservative baseball world ...

Jim Bouton, a top New York Yankees pitcher in the beginning of his career who found greater fame later as the author of ‘‘Ball Four,’’ an irreverent, best-selling book that angered baseball’s ...

Jim Bouton once compared talking with Seattle Pilots manager Joe Schultz to having a conversation with a liverwurst sandwich. That remark was typical of Bouton, a righthanded pitcher with a lefthanded ...

Jim Bouton won 21 games in 1963 and 18 in 1964, then added two wins in that year’s World Series. In 1970, he published his seminal baseball memoir, ”Ball Four.” (AP) Perspective by John Feinstein It ...