“It blew my mind because I stole that line from Jim Bouton in ‘Ball Four.’ Gary Bell was talking to him and said, ‘Let me get ...
The baseball, this magical orb, the actual baseball, Angell’s small miracle of design and utility, has not essentially ...
Already, two weeks after the event, it is difficult to remember that there was a World Series played this year. It is like trying to recall an economy display of back-yard fireworks. Four small ...
With help from 13-year-old batboy Todd Field and former New York Yankee All-Star Jim Bouton, Nelson came up with the idea of shredded bubble gum in a stay-fresh pouch. The first batch was made on Feb.
The knuckleball can be traced back to Eddie Cicotte in 1903. In the modern era in the 60s and 70s, some of the hurlers who threw it were Jim Bouton, Joe and Phil Niekro, Wilbur Wood, Tom Candiotti and ...
More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the ...
And while Black Americans would suffer under the long night of Jim Crow, they would continue their struggle for equality, ...