Bouton
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2985-4 (ISBN)
Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole.
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest
New York Times 2020 Summer Reading List
From the day he first stepped into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939–2019) was the sports world’s deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind the all-American boy-next-door good looks lurked a maverick with a signature style. Whether it was his frank talk about player salaries and mistreatment by management, his passionate advocacy of progressive politics, or his efforts to convince the United States to boycott the 1968 Olympics, Bouton confronted the conservative sports world and compelled it to catch up with a rapidly changing American society.
In Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, Mitchell Nathanson gives readers a look at Bouton’s remarkable life. He tells the unlikely story of how Bouton’s Ball Four, perhaps the greatest baseball book of all time, came into being, how it was received, and how it forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole. Based on wide-ranging interviews Nathanson conducted with Bouton, family, friends, and others, he provides an intimate, inside account of Bouton’s life. Nathanson provides insight as to why Bouton saw the world the way he did, why he was so different from the thousands of players who came before him, and how, in the cliquey, cold, bottom-line world of professional baseball, Bouton managed to be both an insider and an outsider all at once.
Mitchell Nathanson is a professor of law in the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at the Villanova University School of Law. He is the author of God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen, A People’s History of Baseball, and The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit.
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Publication Day
Part One: The Bulldog
1. Warm-up Bouton
2. Take a Hike, Son
3. Joliet
4. You Should Write a Book
5. A Long Way from Amarillo
6. Fucking Shecter
7. All ’Bout Bouton
8. A Threat, Not a Fine
9. The Bulldog and the Chipmunks
10. Rebel without a Fastball
11. The Youth of America Is for Kids
12. The End of the Line
Part Two: The Author
13. Beginnings
14. From Tell-Some to Tell-All
15. Take Your Pants Off, Bouton
16. Fuck You, Shakespeare
17. Protectors of the Holy Flame
18. Against the Unwritten Rules of Baseball
19. Not Enough Sex
20. The Leni Riefenstahl of the National Football League
21. Taking It Personally
22. Bad Stuff ’bout the Mets
Part Three: The Iconoclast
23. Not Selling Refrigerators
24. The Most Famous Vasectomy in New York
25. Are We Rolling?
26. One Smart-Ass and Four Lawyers
27. You’re a Long Time Dead
28. The Battered Bastard of Baseball
29. Gilligan’s Island in Baseball Suits
30. Too Old, Too Everything
31. Magic
32. Dreaming in Baseball
33. Mask of the Bulldog
34. Hey, New York—Bouton’s Back!
35. Lightning in a Pouch
36. The Solo Artist
37. Laurie
38. Existential Bad Faith
39. A Mile in Bowie’s Shoes
40. Cashing Out
41. The Butter-Yellow Box
Epilogue: The Cool of the Evening
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 24 photographs, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-2985-1 / 1496229851 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-2985-4 / 9781496229854 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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