CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Former Yankees pitcher and baseball author Jim Bouton died at home in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts on Wednesday at the age of 80. He had been battling a number of ...

Former Major League pitcher and author Jim Bouton died Wednesday at his home in Massachusetts after a long battle with vascular dementia. He was 80. Bouton had a couple of good seasons with the New ...

Jim Bouton the pitcher was famous for a time for a few successful World Series appearances as a New York Yankee in the early 1960s. But Jim Bouton’s legacy was minted as a writer, and he reveled in ...

Jim Bouton, a 21-game winner for the New York Yankees in 1963 and author of the best-selling Major League tell-all book “Ball Four,” died Wednesday. He was 80. News spread quickly on the internet and ...

Jim Bouton once compared talking with Seattle Pilots manager Joe Schultz to having a conversation with a liverwurst sandwich. That remark was typical of Bouton, a righthanded pitcher with a lefthanded ...

Jim Bouton, one of baseball's most influential bad boys, is the subject of Mitchell Nathanson's admiring biography, "Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original." Although he was a superb pitcher in his ...

Excerpted from “Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original” by Mitchell Nathanson by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. (c)2020 by Mitchell Nathanson. Available May 1, 2020 here or wherever ...

Jim Bouton, a once-promising pitcher with the New York Yankees who found greater fame as the author of "Ball Four," an irreverent, best-selling book that angered baseball's hierarchy and changed the ...

In 1978, I was in awe of meeting Bouton. Turned out, we were two dreamers. I dreamed of being a baseball writer in Cleveland. And I wanted to be an author. Bouton was trying to tame his knuckleball ...

Jim Bouton’s death at the age of 80 should cause us to pause and remember the pitcher who changed sports history. Jim Bouton, the New York Yankees pitcher who shocked the conservative baseball world ...

Jim Bouton the pitcher was famous for a time for a few successful World Series appearances as a New York Yankee in the early 1960s. But Jim Bouton's legacy was minted as a writer, and he reveled in ...

Jim Bouton the pitcher was famous for a time for a few successful World Series appearances as a New York Yankee in the early 1960s. But Jim Bouton’s legacy was minted as a writer, and he reveled in ...