Is it just me, or does that seem like a redundancy? Anyway three all-time favorites are on this list posted to Hoopla.com. And sorry, but as the years go on, I wonder if Ball Four will, in fact, lose its edge.
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I don’t think “Ball Four” will lose its edge. My son, a 17-year-old high school pitcher, is reading “Ball Four” now, after me prompting him several time over the past couple years. He is getting it, understanding that baseball at a competitive level is cut-throat, but nothing beats the time in the dugout. Enjoy the game — now.
The era of Bouton’s book is as”relevant” now as reading about Babe Ruth’s era was to Bouton’s generation. So much has changed in America (and the world) that his anecdotes now seem like charming anachronisms, like seeing pictures of a family from the 1940s gathered together around the radio.
That’s not to say that Ball Four is not a classic, just in a different place than it was when it first came out.
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