yard (four TDs - 68, 43, 40, 33), five 40-plus yard and two 50-plus yard. Ball Four, in short, is the main attraction here-and every bit as good the second time around. posted a 41-yard rushing score and hauled in six balls for 47. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 18.18.

No tremors will result from the ''Ball Five'' addendum-a short-and-bittersweet summary of his post-publication life, which encompasses a marital breakup, work as a local TV personality, a supporting role in The Long Goodbye, and, mirabile dictu, a semi-triumphant return to the majors (with the Atlanta Braves) after seven years in retirement. Buy Ball Four Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980 by Jim Bouton, Jim Boulton online at Alibris. I've got to have a little bit of a hangover to get the best out of me.'' Essentially good natured and unchallenged as to accuracy, Bouton's naming-names disclosures nonetheless proved a severe shock for the baseball establishment. And in a bar one night, a hard-drinking catcher confides: ''I found I can't play if I feel good. ''Okay, all you guys, look horny,'' a coach advises his charges as they are about to deplane and meet wives or girlfriends following a two-week road trip. But his diary, happily, delivered anecdotes, not angst. An articulate and outspoken sort, Bouton found it difficult to play ball with front-office types, field managers, or other powers that be his intellectual pretensions also caused friction with teammates.

While playing in the bush leagues, he developed a knuckler (thrown with the fingertips) to replace his lost fastball and caught on as a reliever in 1969 with the Pilots, an expansion team whose roster combined over-the-hill veterans with unproven rookies. An all-star pitcher and World Series hero with the Yankees during the early 1960s, Bouton suffered arm troubles that landed him in the minors. Now the original text, teamed with a brief account of Bouton's further peccadillos, is set for a comeback. Ball Four Plus Ball Five : An Update, 1970-1980 by Jim Bouton (1991, Hardcover, Revised edition) New (other). First published a decade ago, Bouton's day-by-day report on a long season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros became the best-selling baseball book of all time-and the progenitor of a candid, even blasphemous new breed of sports chronicles.

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