1935: The Braves snap a 14-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Reds. 1978: Thirty-eight year old Jim Bouton picks up his first win since 1970 in a 4-1 victory by the Atlanta Braves over the ...

On Sunday, September 10, 1978, Jim Bouton took the mound for the Atlanta Braves against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bouton was thirty-nine years old and hadn’t pitched in the majors in eight seasons.

Jim Bouton was a 39-year-old knuckleball pitcher for the Class AA Savannah Braves on a strange quest to make it back to the major leagues — where he hadn’t pitched in eight years. But it was ...

Jim Bouton loses his cap while pitching for the New York Yankees in the 1964 World Series. ... he returned to the mound with the Atlanta Braves, winning one game and losing three.

Jim Bouton with an updated version of “Ball Four” in ... in September 1978, Ted Turner, then the owner of a then-hapless team, the Atlanta Braves, brought Bouton to his big-league roster, ...

Baseball writer Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" revealed the inner lives of players on and off the field. News. ... Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves and the ill-fated Seattle Pilots. A World Series record ...

Jim Bouton won 21 games in 1963 and 18 in 1964, ... He made a comeback with the Atlanta Braves in 1978 — eight years after first leaving the game — and pitched in semipro leagues into his 50s.

Newark native Jim Bouton was an All-Star and 21-game winner pitching for the 1963 Yankees, but became more famous for writing the first tell-all baseball book, "Ball Four." Skip to Article Set weather ...

Bouton’s last big-league appearance, after nearly a decade of wandering in the minors, was as an Atlanta Brave at the shank of the 1978 season, when the Braves were wretched, and Ted Turner ...

Jim Bouton as a pitcher for the New York Yankees in 1967. AP file. ... when Ted Turner, the eccentric owner of the sad-sack Atlanta Braves, signed him to a contract.