Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton
James Alan "Jim" Boutonis an American retired professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseballas a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978. He has also been a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 March 1939
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
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.
It goes back to the old concept of town teams ù 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.
The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
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.
Throw him low smoke and we'll go pound some Budweiser.
We broke in together in 1959. You never know who will make it.
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.
For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.
A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.