Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
"James Alan "Jim" Bouton" is an
American retired professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978.
Bouton played college baseball at Western Michigan University, before signing his first professional contract with the Yankees. He was a member of the 1962 World Series champions, and appeared in the 1963 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/1963 MLB All-Star Game. Later in his career, he developed and threw a knuckleball.
Bouton authored the baseball book Ball Four, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the Yankees, Pilots, and Astros.
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Throw him low smoke and we'll go pound some Budweiser.
Forget goals. Value the process.
Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
Most players saw amphetamines as harmless. But the professional athlete does a lot of things to his body that they don't think of as harmful.
It goes back to the old concept of town teams — your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball.
We broke in together in 1959. You never know who will make it.
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