Jim Bouton died Wednesday at age 80, ending a remarkable and sometimes controversial life. All the obituaries speak of his Major League Baseball career highlighted by his 21 victory season in 1963 ...

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 ...

The New York Yankees might be staring down a lost decade. Unless risk-averse ownership makes some big moves, this miserable team isn’t going anywhere soon.

Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original, by Mitchell Nathanson, University of Nebraska Press, 409 pages, $34.95 The best book ever written about baseball is Ball Four, Jim Bouton's irreverent look ...

Jim Bouton has proven to be a man of many talents — pitcher, artist, writer, commentator, activist. A new biography addresses these parts of the man who wrote “Ball Four.” Associated Press ...

The 39-year-old Bouton miraculously made it back to the majors in 1978 with the Atlanta Braves, and won a game against the San Francisco Giants with a solid six-inning performance.

But in Florida’s Grapefruit League, where the rosters of the Dodgers, Cardinals, Phillies, Braves, Twins, and Pirates were fully integrated, Miller won a sweeping victory, 472–34.

Nicknamed Bulldog, Bouton also pitched for Houston in 1970. He returned to the majors with the Atlanta Braves in 1978, going 1-3 at age 39.

Bouton’s career, which was composed of two outstanding Yankee seasons and a 2-0 record in the 1964 World Series, seemed to stop after 1970. He was blackballed, but he also wasn’t very good.

Most baseball fanatics who have read “Ball Four” by former major league pitcher Jim Bouton already know about the sordid, scandalous and silly tales he recounted about teammates over his six-year ...

His name was Jim Bouton. He died at 80 last week. 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 ...

Former major-league pitcher Jim Bouton, who made his lasting imprint on baseball with his behind-the-scenes bestseller, "Ball Four," died Wednesday at his home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts ...