Mitchell Nathanson

Bouton (eBook, PDF)

The Life of a Baseball Original

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Produktbeschreibung

Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors DigestNew York Times 2020 Summer Reading List From the day he first stepped into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939-2019) was the sports world's deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind the all-American boy-next-door good looks lurked a maverick with a signature style. Whether it was his frank talk about player salaries and mistreatment by management, his passionate advocacy of progressive politics, or his efforts to convince the United States to boycott the 1968 Olympics, Bouton confronted the conservative sports world and compelled it to catch up with a rapidly changing American society. In Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, Mitchell Nathanson gives readers a look at Bouton's remarkable life. He tells the unlikely story of how Bouton's Ball Four, perhaps the greatest baseball book of all time, came into being, how it was received, and how it forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole. Based on wide-ranging interviews Nathanson conducted with Bouton, family, friends, and others, he provides an intimate, inside account of Bouton's life. Nathanson provides insight as to why Bouton saw the world the way he did, why he was so different from the thousands of players who came before him, and how, in the cliquey, cold, bottom-line world of professional baseball, Bouton managed to be both an insider and an outsider all at once.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496221322
• Artikelnr.: 72427631

Autorenporträt

Mitchell Nathanson is a professor of law in the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at the Villanova University School of Law. He is the author of God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen, A People’s History of Baseball, and The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
Prologue: Publication Day    
Part One: The Bulldog
1. Warm-up Bouton    
2. Take a Hike, Son    
3. Joliet    
4. You Should Write a Book    
5. A Long Way from Amarillo    
6. Fucking Shecter    
7. All ’Bout Bouton    
8. A Threat, Not a Fine    
9. The Bulldog and the Chipmunks    
10. Rebel without a Fastball    
11. The Youth of America Is for Kids    
12. The End of the Line    
Part Two: The Author
13. Beginnings    
14. From Tell-Some to Tell-All    
15. Take Your Pants Off, Bouton    
16. Fuck You, Shakespeare    
17. Protectors of the Holy Flame    
18. Against the Unwritten Rules of Baseball    
19. Not Enough Sex    
20. The Leni Riefenstahl of the National Football League    
21. Taking It Personally    
22. Bad Stuff ’bout the Mets    
Part Three: The Iconoclast
23. Not Selling Refrigerators    
24. The Most Famous Vasectomy in New York    
25. Are We Rolling?     
26. One Smart-Ass and Four Lawyers    
27. You’re a Long Time Dead    
28. The Battered Bastard of Baseball    
29. Gilligan’s Island in Baseball Suits    
30. Too Old, Too Everything    
31. Magic    
32. Dreaming in Baseball    
33. Mask of the Bulldog    
34. Hey, New York—Bouton’s Back!    
35. Lightning in a Pouch    
36. The Solo Artist    
37. Laurie    
38. Existential Bad Faith    
39. A Mile in Bowie’s Shoes    
40. Cashing Out    
41. The Butter-Yellow Box    
Epilogue: The Cool of the Evening    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index