"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out it was the other way around."If there were only two books you had to read on baseball this would be the other one. A friend of mine had been trying to convince me to read this book for months and I had it sitting in my "to get to" stack. I still can't believe I didn't get to it sooner.
Ball Four is one of the best and most entertaining books I have ever read and that's not even from a sports point of view. The book literally comes across as Bouton describes it "just taking notes" and the anecdotes and stories he shares are hilarious and revealing. Forget the right or wrong of writing this, this book makes ballplayers human again. From a fan's point of a view, from a baseball point of view, and from a people point of view this book is a must.
Now in the wise, wise words of Joe Schultz "zitz 'em and go pound Budweiser!"
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