"Ball Four" was a landmark of honesty and insight in sportswriting, inspiring the late Stephen Jay Gould - paleontologist and occasional baseball writer - to talk about "the Boutonian revolution in baseball biography."
Jim Bouton greets former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Tommie Davis, left, during a 1998 old-timers game.
In 2001, Jim Bouton came out with the last version of his classic "Ball Four," entitled, fittingly, "Ball Four: The Final Pitch." For those of you too young to remember, "Ball Four" was the book that drew back the curtains of major league baseball, exposing the kinds of things that made few headlines before 1970, when it was published.
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