Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein and Day, N. Y.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Illustrated. Very Good in Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover has light shelf wear. The jacket has small tears and creases.........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein And Day, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. WHITE HARDCOVER COVER WITH LIGHT SOILING. INTERIOR PAGES STAMPED "DISCARD" AND HAVE SLIGHT STAINING WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT, LIBRARY CARD HOLDER REMOVED. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein and Day Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author No dust jacket. 457 pages. Clean text and boards. "So what follows, then, is not so much a book about Jim Bouton as it is about what I've seen and felt playing baseball, for a season, up and down with an expansion tearm, and for what had been for me so far, a lifetime. " read more
Description: 1981. Signed by Jim Bouton. Good/Fair. Hardback with edge worn, chipped dust jacket, 457 pages. Jacket has a half-inch open tear at base of spine and a quarter inch open tear on top of spine. Slight corner wear on boards. Clean and solid. read more
Description: Stein and Day, c1981, First edition, hardcover, AUTOGRAPHED, ; Signed by Author on title page, pages bright, a solid GOOD+ copy, though it is ex-library with usual distinctions, spine lightly rolled, in a VERY GOOD colorful dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Very Good. 457 pages. Signed by the author Jim Bouton. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket in protective archival cover. Only flaw is minor stain to top page edge and minor wear to jacket at edges. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: STEIN & DAY, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. BIOGRAPHY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed. BY AUTHOR 457 PAGES. DARK GREEN DUST JACKET HAS A 2 INCH CLOSED TEAR ON FRONT WHICH HAS CAUSED CREASING. FRONT END PAPER INSCRIBED, 'JIM BOUTON'. BOOK IS CLEAN, BRIGHT AND SECURE. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub, Chelsea Manor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed by Author(s) Signed on the front end free paper. -----Serving the NW Chicago suburbs since 1975----- read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
Date Published: 1981-03
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Good. Signed by Jim Bouton! Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight binding, clean pages. Dust jacket has some chips and small tears. Price clipped from inside flyleaf. Otherwise very nice condition! read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein + Day, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Good condition, pages clean & tight though cover, outside edges of text block and dustjacket have some staining. Pages clean & tight. DJ now under mylar. SIgned by Jim Bouton on front free endpaper. 457 pages. With the same sensitivity, humor, and pith that made Ball Four a classic, Jim Bouton tells the story of his life after baseball, as a writer, actor, television personality, and inventor of a million-dollar chewing gum idea. read more
Description: 1st edition, hardcover, dust jacket has very light edge rubbing & the book has light text edge spotting; otherwise the book and jacket are in near fine condition, with clean, unmarked text pages. SIGNED & dated (12/8/83) by Major League Pitcher Jim Bouton, with an inscription on the front endpaper. The updated reissue of the baseball classic Ball Four, by Bouton. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub, Chelsea Manor, Michigan, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed Signed First Thus Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover, quarter cloth with gilt titles, DJ, 457 pp, b&w photos, light edgewear, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in a Brodart cover. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Hardcover; 1st printing of the 1st ed; Fine in fine dust jacket AND SIGNED by Bouton. Includes the complete text of the classic "Ball Four"-possibly the BEST baseball book of all time plus Bouton writes about what happened AFTER the book was published: reactions-good & bad to the book; his T.V. career, sportscasting, his attempted comeback, and what the "Ball Four" boys are doing now. BW photos. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0812827716. 1981 first thus, first printing partial cloth hardcover and dust jacket in very good condition. Flat signed by Jim Bouton on front free endpaper. Minimal wear. No tears. Protective mylar cover.; Signed by Author. read more
Description: Very Good. 0812827716 First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD hardcover book in VERY GOOD dust-jacket. NOT marked. NOT remaindered. NOT a b/c. NOT an XL. Price clipped. Residue from sticker removal on inside front cover. DJ has some fading on spine and edges, as well as wear from handling. Small clossed tear on front bottom and edgewear tiny chips out of top and bottom edge of DJ spine. All of our dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective book jacket covers. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: 0812827716. Good in a Good dust jacket, several chips and tears.; Inscribed & Dated by Author; Signed by Author. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780812827712ISBN:0812827716
Description: 0812827716. Very good+ in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Spine cocked, edge wear; Signed by Boulton; Signed by Author. read more
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"Even in today's stories of steroids and other excess found in contemporary baseball books, "Ball Four" is still a delightfully crude expose of the game, if for no other reason than there had never been such an expose before. But what made "Ball Four" for me was Bouton's feeling of being a chronic outsider but still managing to point out the foolishness around him. I'd long been able to relate to the "outsider" part when I first read this at age 15, but I'd never read any prose that made the insiders look so ridiculous. His ear for irony and often matter-of-fact descriptions of the daily barrage of outrages, absurdities, and lunacies that permeated baseball makes this certainly the best sports book I've ever read, and easily the most influential. It's influenced my writing more than any book I've ever read. I'm pleased to make my first review on goodreads a review of "Ball Four.""
"Sad to say, baseball nut that I am, this book stayed below my radar for years on end, when it finally became a known quantity in my life as a fan I viewed it as something rather like Great Expectations definitely on the reading list, just waiting for you to tackle it and be stunned.
However, rarely does the book live up to the hype. I fully expected a gripping story full of mystery and wonder, wit and grace, evocative prose reliving the highs and lows of a season on the road. And in the course of the novel Bouton certainly does have his moments of exalted eloquence, the single sentence: "sometimes I forget to tingle" alone is worth the read.
Yet, most of the book is mundane, filled with the quotidian events in a season as a ballplayer. It's 162 games, it's months and months of your life, it's tiring, exhausting, spirit-crushing work (particularly if you're anything less than the greatest player ever), and Bouton chronicles that part of the season masterfully. The locker room banter, the minor fracases and major feuds, the games they play, the haggling with owners and executives, the women--my god--the women. And while much of the book is full of inside jokes, there's enough to amuse anyone and several insightful observations about the growing sentiment of anti-intellectualism in the 1960s. (Best of all, he hates the Yankees, how can any baseball fan (other than Yankees fans) not love the book when he hates the Yankees so much.)
While I prefer my baseball literature in a more compelling, dramatic vein, I do appreciate the subtle graces and easy pleasures of a season with a washed up knuckle-ball pitcher with absurd philosophies and good dose of charm."
"Billed as one of the most (if not the most) important sports book ever, Ball Four reads as a diary of Jim Bouton's struggle to stay relevant in 1969 having reinvented himself as a knuckleball pitcher. It's important because at the time it blew the lid off the use of "Greenies" (amphetamines) womanizing, overdrinking, and other such habits rampant in the baseball world.
Now, on its own with all of these things common knowledge, the book still reads well. There's as much in there about illegal activities as there is about his kids. Bouton keeps the story grounded and doesn't read like the average baseball player memoirs. Witty, informative, and smart, I reccomend it."
"This is not the book for those of you yearning for the old days when ballplayers played for their love of the game. If you wish steroid scandals would just get brushed under the rug and The Mick was raking in Yankee stadium again, Ball Four might just break your heart a little. Jim Bouton opened a door that has never been forced shut again when he aired the Yankees' (and by extension, major league baseball's) dirty laundry. This is a genuinely funny and enlightening book written by an insider with intimate, first-hand knowledge of the misbehavior of some of the most lauded teams of recent time. Highly recommended for any baseball fan."
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