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Ball Four, by Jim Bouton. Inside Baseball, where Bowie Kuhn fears to tread -lively, bawdy, irreverent...
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...BOUTON does make an effort to place the game of baseball in a larger social context. According to the owner's canon, baseball is the place where racism, class inequality and other forms of discrimination do not exist. "You're all ball-players and you all put you're pants on one leg at a time." Branch Rickey told the Brooklyn Dodgers before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and of course the ball-players responded with warmth and affection to their new "colored brother." Or so say the sportswriters and owners. Bouton, on the other hand, tells of Elston...
...price you pay for being loved in baseball is the loss of individuality, Bouton states at one point, and, in Howard's case it was poignantly true. The stereotyping that goes on in baseball is again a reflection of the underbelly of the American dream, and Bouton understands that, and writes about his own submission to his managers and owners with wry understanding. Bouton kept his intelligence under wraps for a year, trying so hard to conform to standard opinions and life styles among players and managers that he even tried to like Fred Talbot, another cast-off pitcher...