![]() ![]() That’s like saying, ‘Hey, roomie, I’m going to wear a new suit tomorrow,’ and he shows up in a Nehru. “I knew he was writing a book from day one because he told me,” Miller continued, “but there had never been anything like that. In an era of social change, when seemingly everybody was questioning everything, Ball Four brought at last the ethos of the times into the staid world of baseball. “You were either for it or against it,” Bouton’s roommate with the 1969 Houston Astros Norm Miller told me. There had been sports diaries before, which, structurally-speaking, was what Ball Four was, but there had never been a sports diary like this one-one that was also a de facto political statement. His kindling was Ball Four, a book that torched everything the game’s standard bearers held sacred. Fifty years ago this month Jim Bouton set the baseball world on fire. ![]()
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