| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One: The Bulldog -- 1. Warm-up Bouton -- 2. Take a Hike, Son -- 3. Joliet -- 4. You Should Write a Book -- 5. A Long Way from Amarillo -- 6. Fucking Shecter -- 7. All 'Bout Bouton -- 8. A Threat, Not a Fine -- 9. The Bulldog and the Chipmunks -- 10. Rebel without a Fastball -- 11. The Youth of America Is for Kids -- 12. The End of the Line -- Part Two: The Author -- 13. Beginnings -- 14. From Tell-Some to Tell-All -- 15. Take Your Pants Off, Bouton -- 16. Fuck You, Shakespeare |
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17. Protectors of the Holy Flame -- 18. Against the Unwritten Rules of Baseball -- 19. Not Enough Sex -- 20. The Leni Riefenstahl of the National Football League -- 21. Taking It Personally -- 22. Bad Stuff 'bout the Mets -- Part Three: The Iconoclast -- 23. Not Selling Refrigerators -- 24. The Most Famous Vasectomy in New York -- 25. Are We Rolling? -- 26. One Smart-Ass and Four Lawyers -- 27. You're a Long Time Dead -- 28. The Battered Bastard of Baseball -- 29. Gilligan's Island in Baseball Suits -- 30. Too Old, Too Everything -- 31. Magic -- 32. Dreaming in Baseball -- 33. Mask of the Bulldog |
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34. Hey, New York-Bouton's Back! -- 35. Lightning in a Pouch -- 36. The Solo Artist -- 37. Laurie -- 38. Existential Bad Faith -- 39. A Mile in Bowie's Shoes -- 40. Cashing Out -- 41. The Butter-Yellow Box -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bouton, Jim
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| SUBJECT |
Bouton, Jim
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Bouton, Jim fast |
| Subject |
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
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Baseball -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
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Baseball
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Baseball players
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496221322 |
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149622132X |
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9781496221308 |
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1496221303 |
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