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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. He finished his 10-year career with a 62-63 record and 3.57 ERA.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu He returned to the majors with the Atlanta Braves in 1978, going 1-3 at age 39. Nicknamed Bulldog, Bouton also pitched for Houston in 1970. He worked on "Ball Four" in 1969, a season spent with the expansion Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros, his fastball replaced by a knuckleball as he tried to prolong his career. Louis Cardinals.īouton injured his right arm in 1965, going 4-15 that season, and saw limited action the next three seasons with New York.

The Yankees lost the World Series both years, with Bouton losing his lone start in 1963 in New York's loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and winning twice the following year in the Yankees' loss to the St. 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.