Jim Bouton Dies: ‘Ball Four’ Author Who Broke Sports Taboos Was 80
Jim Bouton, whose groundbreaking book Ball Four was one of the first tell-all books in sports, has died at age 80. He passed today in Massachusetts from a brain disease linked to dementia. Bouton had great success as a pitcher with the New York Yankees in the early 1960s, winning 20 games and two World Series […]