Jim Bouton, ‘Ball Four’ Author and Former Yankees Pitcher, Dies Aged 80

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”

Tom Sykes 

European Editor at Large

Published Jul. 11 2019 7:32AM EDT 

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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tom.sykes@thedailybeast.com

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