Ball Four
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Mar 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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“And then, I guess, if I could recommend a baseball book, a book that really sort of changed the way I, I don't know, look at both sports and writing, is Ball Four by Jim Boughton. I don't know if you know that book. I don't. Jim Boughton was a 20-game winner with the Yankees in the early 60s, and he, and he had two great years, went to the World Series, blew his arm out, and, um, six years later, he fought and tried to make a comeback. He taught himself the knuckleball, and he came back with an expansion team, the Seattle Pilots, which are now the Milwaukee Brewers, and he kept a diary, and he was a very, very weird guy and kind of an intellectual and an, an opponent to the Vietnam War, and he sort of wrote about the drugs that the players were taking.”
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