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    Jim Bouton - Wikipedia. James Alan Bouton ( / ˈbaʊtən /; March 8, 1939 – July 10, 2019) 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 between 1962 and 1978.

  2. Mar 8, 2011 · Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Jim Bouton. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com.

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  3. Jul 10, 2019 · Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling —...

  4. Jul 11, 2019 · Jim Bouton was a fireballing right-hander who won 21 games for the Yankees in 1963 and 1964, but also wrote a controversial book that exposed the secrets of baseball. He died of a brain disease at 80, leaving behind a legacy of challenging the old-school hierarchy and opening up the sport to fans.

  5. Jul 11, 2019 · Jim Bouton, the sore-armed pitcher for the New York Yankees and other teams whose "Ball Four" is widely considered the most important book about American sports ever written, died...

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  6. Jul 11, 2019 · Jim Bouton, the New York Yankees pitcher who shocked the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. He was 80.

  7. Jul 13, 2019 · R.I.P. to Jim Bouton, who went from an All-Star pitcher to a bestselling author to a baseball pariah to entertainment personality to a beloved and respected baseball figure. He died on July 10, at the age of 80. The ex-pitcher had suffered a severe stroke in 2012, which led to cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a disease…