Achieve Im Glad You Didnt Take It Personally Drafted By Jim Bouton Paper Copy

in. Humorous look at baseball. This is the book my husband brought me to read while I was in the hospital waiting for the birth of our first child! Hubby was an avid baseball fan so it didn't surprise me that this was his choice.
I gave the book a try and thoroughly enjoyed all the stories, Luckily I understood all the baseball terminology thanks to having attended many baseball games, I would recommend this for a fun read! Very much enjoyed the sequel and Bouton documenting all that happened as a result of Ball Four, An excellent companion piece for anyone who didn't get why the original created so much noise, basbeall,Bouton The Ball Four Redux in which which Bouton discussed both the controversies and reactions to Ball Four, and the end of his original pitching career and his transition to becoming a New York sportscaster.

I found it as entertaining as "Ball Four", Fine followup to "Ball Four, " Splendid insight into fame, sports, hypocrisy, and loyalty, Bouton has an involving conversational style, I had read this years ago and forgot I still had it sitting around, After listening to the Ball Four audiobook I figured I might as well read this again, It's OK, has some more good stories but is mostly a followup about how his life had gone in the past year or so, I think it was written too early after Ball Four though, I found the updates to Ball Four that he did later much better considering he had more years to really think about it all, Bouton wrote the seminal baseball tell all book "Ball Four", The problem with this book is that he did tell it all in "Ball Four" and this book did not have much to say, I didn't take it personally, but objectively this book deserved the black eye on the cover, I met Bouton in college and I have to say his personality comes through much better in person than it does in his book,
Funny followup to Ball Four, Bouton on the praise, criticism, adulation, and fallout following the publication of Ball Four, This book is always funny and insightful, and allows Bouton to share more of his own life story with a level of candor and introspection we might all strive for in our own lives.
Sequel to Ball Four not as good, but still interesting, The followup to Bouton's classic Ball Four, this one basically is a recap of the reaction and reviews the first book received, his start of a new career after baseball, and a few more baseball anecdotes.
All still with the classic Bouton wit, I haven't read Ball Four and found this in the free section of a bookstore, It just sounded like rambling to me about his life, Not as much about baseball, but how he became a broadcaster, I found the book boring, not really a baseball fan and

this is dated but still appropriate I gave it five based on how I felt about it when I was in high school.
I liked this book as much as I liked 'Ball Four', One of the very few books I have read more than once, I hadn't read this in decades and I loved it,

A great followup to Ball Four, This is a book about the publication of a book, Jim Bouton tells us the reaction to his previous book Ball Four, It is an interesting concept the results are somewhat predictable, You can't really read this one without reading Ball Four first, James Alan Bouton March,July,was an American professional baseball player, Bouton played in Major League Baseball MLB as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves betweenand, He was also a best selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew, .