Throwing so hard that his cap often flew off his head, Bouton was 21-8 with six shutouts in 1963 - his second season in the majors and his only year as an All-Star - and went 18-13 with four more shutouts in 1964.
He wasn’t invited to the Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day until 1998 Bouton’s revealing look at baseball off the field made for eye-opening and entertaining reading, but he paid a big price for the best-seller when former teammates and players and executives across baseball ostracized him for exposing their secrets. Published in 1970, “Ball Four” detailed Yankees great Mickey Mantle’s carousing, and the use of stimulants in the major leagues. He fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. He was 80.īouton’s family said he died Wednesday at the Great Barrington home he shared with wife Paula Kurman.
Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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