Synopses & Reviews
This classic baseball memoir and behind-the-scenes tell-all upset the hero-worshiping press, public, and officials of Major League Baseball when it was first published in the early 1970s but it has been a perennial seller ever since. Its anecdotes of fellow players on and off the field are filled with humor and the love of the game, and it makes clear that the game of baseball was in the process of change.
Review
"As it turned out, of course, one might as well have tried to resist free verse. Publishers would continue to put out reverent books about sports heroes the shelves are filled with hagiographies of everyone from Michael Jordan to Joe Montana but Bouton had changed the form." David Remnick, the New Yorker