For "Ball Four" fans

You can last a long time when you avoid catching knuckleball pitchers in the bullpen.

 

It all ought to go into the Hall of Fame somewhere (it is a museum first and foremost, after all), but won't.
I have the great pleasure to report that my son, who doesn't even like baseball (too slow) very much, downloaded the book for our recent trip to Europe and loved every page. Now he likes baseball better.

 

Your son or baseball? [/ducking]

 

Hey, how come Plaza's obit doesn't mention his stint with the Pilots? You bastards!

 

Yeah, the obit covers his whole career, but skips over 1969.

 

Jim Fucking Bunning with that shit slider of his?

 

He can do that AND also do a book on The Making of Ball Four. Best of both worlds.

 

Even if the HOF ends up with it (and it very well could with an eventual buyer's donation/loan), that doesn't mean they'll be able to display it to the public.

I've never been down to the vault (... yet), but it's mind-blowing how much stuff is in Cooperstown that no one's ever seen.

 

I just finished the e-book the other day, too. I remembered the NYT letter that his son wrote and the reception Bouton got at the old-timers' game, so I think I knew that "the unsinkable Molly Brown" had died young.

But I had never read Bouton's "Ball Seven" account of it all. Almost had to stop reading in the middle of it. That was heartbreaking.

 

Boy, did he have Crosetti pegged.