Jim Bouton Enterprises, Inc., no commercial reuse.įifty summers ago, in that year of Woodstock, Apollo 11, and the Mets’ improbable World Series championship, a pitcher named Jim Bouton threw a knuckleball and wrote a diary that became a classic of American literature. Here, John Thorn, an author and the official historian of MLB, writes about Bouton and their long friendship. Celebrated in his 20s as a pitcher with the New York Yankees of the 1960s, Bouton attained lasting fame as the author of an explosive (and hilarious) memoir, “ Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues.” More than a baseball book, “Ball Four” became a monument to a tempestuous time in American history. We are thrilled to announce that the Library has acquired the papers of former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton. He had a stroke in 2012 and, in recent years, suffered from vascular dementia.
UPDATE: Jim Bouton died at his Massachusetts home on July 10, 2019.
Jim Bouton Papers, Manuscript Division. Jim Bouton Enterprises, Inc., no commercial reuse. New! Baseball’s Jim Bouton and “Ball Four” at the Library
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