{"product_id":"bouton-9781496229854","title":"Bouton","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Once you start reading, you will not be able to stop. A compelling look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in baseball history. A new generation needs to know the story of Jim Bouton: a man who never wearied of gleefully and hilariously skewering the establishment but who also had the old-school drive to will his dreams into reality. Above all, a lifetime love of baseball shines through in every chapter—a true reflection of Bouton himself.”—Brian Kenny, host for MLB Network and author of \u003ci\u003eAhead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Baseball fans will laugh alongside and, ultimately, feel touched by this look at an iconoclastic, often quixotic man who, despite the charges that his landmark book had hurt the game, loved baseball to the very end.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\"An astute writer on the game, [Nathanson] is as at his best on the Bouton-Shecter collaboration—late nights at the Lion’s Head Bar in Greenwich Village; Shecter making sense of Bouton’s scrawls on stationery, envelopes and toilet paper; the pair noodling over the manuscript stripped down to their underwear in Shecter’s airless Chelsea apartment. . . . Nathanson is good, too, with Bouton wisecracks.\"—Maxwell Carter, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When Mitchell Nathanson, a professor of sports law at Villanova, approached Bouton about writing his biography, the pitcher gave his blessing, on one condition: that Nathanson write about him with the honesty he’d tried to bring to the game of baseball. . . . Nathanson moves crisply through the deep back story, though he knows a good detail when he sees one.\"—John Swansburg, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nathanson goes beyond tracing Bouton’s life, focusing instead on explicating the roots of \u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e. In so doing, the book becomes an inside-publishing exposé, showing how the publication and selling of \u003ci\u003eBall Four \u003c\/i\u003echanged our expectations of what a sports book could be. . . . In addition, the book provides fascinating details about Bouton's post–\u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e life, including his fling at acting and his turn as an entrepreneur, developing the successful bubble-gum product Big League Chew. A welcome look at one of baseball's signature mavericks.\"—Mark Levine, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nathanson's chronicle of baseball's renowned counter-culture renegade as author of \u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e in 1970 is a masterful exploration of Jim Bouton's impact not only to major-league baseball but also within the larger societal spheres of the overall sports industry and American culture in general.\"—Charlie Bevis, \u003ci\u003eBevis Baseball Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBouton: The Life of a Baseball Original\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the best baseball biographies in recent memory. Nathanson is a fantastic storyteller, capable of juxtaposing Bouton's recollections with those of his contemporaries and situating these stories within their historical context. While researching the book, he spent a significant amount of time with Bouton in the final years of his life (Bouton died in 2019), which contributes to the depth with which he renders his subject.\"—Clayton Trutor, \u003ci\u003eReason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"B\u003ci\u003eouton\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that deserves space next to \u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e on the bookshelf. Nathanson has done a thorough job of presenting the life of a complex man who changed the game of baseball, not by what he did on the field, but what he observed on the field, in the clubhouse and on the road.\"—Bob D'Angelo, S\u003ci\u003eports Bookie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A well-researched and fascinating read that tells how the free thinking Bouton always marched to the beat of his own drummer.\"—John Werner, \u003ci\u003eWaco Tribune-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nathanson's source list is deep and insightful and his writing is crisp. And his access to Bouton's \u003ci\u003eBall Four\u003c\/i\u003e notes provides answers to some lingering questions.\"—Dennis Star, \u003ci\u003ePeoria Journal Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Publication Day    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One: The Bulldog\u003cbr\u003e 1. Warm-up Bouton    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Take a Hike, Son    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Joliet    \u003cbr\u003e 4. You Should Write a Book    \u003cbr\u003e 5. A Long Way from Amarillo    \u003cbr\u003e 6. Fucking Shecter    \u003cbr\u003e 7. All ’Bout Bouton    \u003cbr\u003e 8. A Threat, Not a Fine    \u003cbr\u003e 9. The Bulldog and the Chipmunks    \u003cbr\u003e 10. Rebel without a Fastball    \u003cbr\u003e 11. The Youth of America Is for Kids    \u003cbr\u003e 12. The End of the Line    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Author\u003cbr\u003e 13. Beginnings    \u003cbr\u003e 14. From Tell-Some to Tell-All    \u003cbr\u003e 15. Take Your Pants Off, Bouton    \u003cbr\u003e 16. Fuck You, Shakespeare    \u003cbr\u003e 17. Protectors of the Holy Flame    \u003cbr\u003e 18. Against the Unwritten Rules of Baseball    \u003cbr\u003e 19. Not Enough Sex    \u003cbr\u003e 20. The Leni Riefenstahl of the National Football League    \u003cbr\u003e 21. Taking It Personally    \u003cbr\u003e 22. Bad Stuff ’bout the Mets    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: The Iconoclast\u003cbr\u003e 23. Not Selling Refrigerators    \u003cbr\u003e 24. The Most Famous Vasectomy in New York    \u003cbr\u003e 25. Are We Rolling?     \u003cbr\u003e 26. One Smart-Ass and Four Lawyers    \u003cbr\u003e 27. You’re a Long Time Dead    \u003cbr\u003e 28. The Battered Bastard of Baseball    \u003cbr\u003e 29. \u003ci\u003eGilligan’s Island\u003c\/i\u003e in Baseball Suits    \u003cbr\u003e 30. Too Old, Too Everything    \u003cbr\u003e 31. Magic    \u003cbr\u003e 32. Dreaming in Baseball    \u003cbr\u003e 33. Mask of the Bulldog    \u003cbr\u003e 34. Hey, New York—Bouton’s Back!    \u003cbr\u003e 35. Lightning in a Pouch    \u003cbr\u003e 36. The Solo Artist    \u003cbr\u003e 37. Laurie    \u003cbr\u003e 38. Existential Bad Faith    \u003cbr\u003e 39. A Mile in Bowie’s Shoes    \u003cbr\u003e 40. Cashing Out    \u003cbr\u003e 41. The Butter-Yellow Box    \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Cool of the Evening    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409239220567,"sku":"9781496229854","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496229854.jpg?v=1730506096","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bouton-9781496229854","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}