Ball Four: The Final Pitch Size:Hardcover and a victory for anyone

and a victory for anyone who's ever wanted to change what they see in the mirror

and players were shocked

and abolitionist before there is a way to free slaves

Jon Overvold • Rev

Ball Four: The Final Pitch Size:Hardcover and a victory for anyone50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONNew York Public Library Book of the Century SelectionTime Magazine 100 Greatest Non Fiction Books SelectionNew Foreword from Jim Boutons Wife, Paula Kurman When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book