"It's a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than three decades.
"It is not just a diary of Bouton's 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros," says sportswriter Jim Caple. Today Ball Four has taken on another role-as a time capsule of life in the sixties.
In 1975, Ball Four was accepted as legal evidence against the owners at the arbitration hearing that led to free agency in baseball, and by extension, in other sports. Besides changing the public image of athletes, the book played a role in the economic revolution in professional sports. Historians understood the value of the book's depth and honesty. Fans liked discovering that the athletes they worshiped were real people. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four, and serious critics called it an important document. The San Diego Padres burned a copy in the clubhouse. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn't read the book, denounced it. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a "social leper" for having violated the "sanctity of the clubhouse." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn attempted to force Bouton to sign a statement saying that the book wasn't true. Hall as she discusses her book, As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back: A Novel, in conversation with Andrea J.The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with an updated epilogue by Jim Bouton When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it ignited a firestorm of controversy. Thursday, July 13th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Alle C. Thursday, June 22nd, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Allyson McCabe, author of Why Siné ad O'Connor Matters, in Conversation with Sadie Dupuis Tuesday, June 13th, at 1:00 PM, in partnership with The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Eli Merritt, Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution Thursday, June 8th 6:30-8:00 PM, RSVP to attend an evening with Emily Hund and Sara Petersen, in conversation with Jo Piazza Tuesday, June 6th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Jane Roper, author of The Society of Shame
Tuesday, June 2nd, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Mark Paul, in Conversation with Nikil Saval. Thursday, June 1st, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Luke Russert, author of Look For Me There: Grieving My father, Finding Myself POSTPONED UNTIL FALL OF 2023, FORMERLY Friday, May 12th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Three Authors Featured in Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories that Smash Mental Health Stereotypes.
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