A book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact it is by no means a sports book" —David Halberstam " Ball Four is a people book, not just a baseball book." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world... read more
For the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Preface -- 1980, 1990
Editor's Forward
Introduction
BALL FOUR
Part 1 They Made Me What I Am Today
Part 2 "My Arm Isn't Sore, It's Just A Little Stiff."
Part 3 And Then I Died
Part 4 I Always Wanted to See Hawaii
Part 5 The Yanks Are Coming, The Yanks Are Coming
Part 6 Shut Up
Part 7 Honey, Meet Me In Houston
Appendix Tell Your Statistics To Shut Up
BALL FIVE -- Ten Years Later
BALL SIX -- Twenty Years Later
Photographs
The Boys of Ball Four
About the Editor
Index
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