The Yankees lost the World Series both years, with Bouton losing his lone start in 1963 in New York’s loss to the Angeles Dodgers, and winning twice the following year in the Yankees’ loss to the St. Throwing so hard that his cap flew off his head, Bouton was 21-8 with six shutouts in 1963 - his second season in the majors - and went 18-13 with four more shutouts in 1964. In 1983, as a staff writer for theWashington Post, I went to Atlantic City to interview my childhood hero, Mickey Mantle, who had been banished from baseball. 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, other players and executives across the big leagues 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. In 1970, BOUTON's memoir 'Ball Four' was published. He was 80.īouton’s family said he died today at the home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. Mantle played his entire 17-year career with one team, the New York Yankees.INT 3: A 1986 interview with former Yankees pitcher JIM BOUTON. Louis in Game Four and Tim McCarver’s three-run blast in the 10th inning of Game Five had given the Cardinals their 3-2 advantage in games. In Ball Four, Bouton exposed in great detail the carousing of Yankees legend Mickey Mantle. Mickey Mantle had clouted the game-winner off Barney Schultz in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Three Ken Boyer’s sixth-inning grand slam had provided the winning margin for St. 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. Ex-Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton was a 20-game winner, won two World Series games.

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