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Ball Four
by Jim Bouton
Bouton's 1969 diary of a knuckleballer with the Seattle Pilots: greenies, Mantle's hangovers, salary fights. The book that broke sports' code of silence.
Read it if…
you want the funniest and most honest baseball book.
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Skip it if…
you want heroes unblemished.
Try instead: The Boys of Summer →
Three things you will actually use
- Tell the truth about institutions.
- Humor survives.
- You spend your life gripping a baseball and it was the other way around.
Do this first
Read the spring training entries.
Our verdict
Bouton's diary.
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