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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim Bouton, one of my favorite Yankees pitchers in the 1960s, passed away yesterday....
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Jim Bouton, one of my favorite Yankees pitchers in the 1960s, passed away yesterday.... (Original Post)
George II
Jul 2019
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lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)1. I remember him n/t
lapucelle
(18,265 posts)2. I remember him too and read his baseball tell-all book "Ball Four"
Remember the weirdness with Fritz Peterson and Mike Keckich swapping families? Bouton wrote about it at length.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20130126/SPORTS/812038393
GP6971
(31,163 posts)3. I met him a couple of times
as he was from my hometown. In 71 and 72 he occasionally pitched in our local Connie Mack team. We all ran over to the field when on breaks and lunch just to watch him. Awesome pitcher.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)4. Also helped promote vintage baseball
Bouton helped form the Vintage Base Ball Federation and was an early supporter of the sport that promotes baseball as it was orginally played, with the ideals of sportsmanship.