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Prof. C. L. Bouton, 4-5, 9 Avon...
...slew of safeguards meant to improve corporate transparency and accountability - the unmistakable sound of tut-tutting can be heard across the Continent: many business leaders contend that Enron-style abuses simply couldn't happen on their turf. "Our situation is profoundly different from the American one," says Daniel Bouton, CEO of the French bank Société Generale and head of a corporate governance group set up by French business. "We already have the supervision here that is now being put in place in the U.S." Maybe so, but in Brussels a very different picture is emerging about...
...book I'm reading now is Jim Bouton's "Ball Four," a first-hand account of Major League Baseball in the late 1960s. It was required reading for History 1653, "Baseball and American Society." It was actually a book I enjoyed reading for class, but I just didn't get the chance to finish it because the books kept coming, even though I wasn't ready for them...
...BOUTON, 58; GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS; author, baseball player
...invited to the Yankees' Old-Timers' Day--all because this onetime fastball pitcher turned knuckleballer threw baseball a curve. His 1970 classic, Ball Four, forever changed the way fans looked at baseball. Bouton had been one of the best. In 1963 he had a record of 21 and 7--and made $10,500. But at the tail end of his career, he wrote a seriously funny book that revealed, among other things, that Mickey Mantle shunned giving autographs to kids and professional ballplayers were not the boy scouts they made themselves out to be. The book became a best seller...