Jim Bouton, the sore-armed up pitcher for the New York Yankees and other teams, dies at age 80, his family told AP.
," said Joe Cronin, the president of the American League."He's got ballplayers sleeping with each other's wives. He's got them being Peeping Toms. He's even got them kissing each other. I've never read anything so bad in my whole life."
In sequels and other books that followed, most notably"I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally," the cover of which depicted a baseball as a black eye, Bouton related that the Yankees stopped inviting him to Old Timers Games, while individual members of the team — some of then former friends like Billy Martin and Elston Howard — shunned him.
He bounced around the minors for three years — taking time out in 1976 to star in the only season of a sitcom based on"Ball Four" — until 1978, when Ted Turner, the eccentric owner of the sad-sack Atlanta Braves, signed him to a contract. He started the 1978 season in Class AA but had worked his way to the big league roster by September, adding one win and three losses to his major-league record.
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