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Ex-MLB pitcher Jim Bouton, who wrote controversial bestseller 'Ball Four' and went to Bloom High School, dies at 80
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This is a story Yankee pitcher and 'Ball Four' author Jim Bouton didn't want told – New York Daily News
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Ex-MLB pitcher Jim Bouton, who wrote controversial bestseller 'Ball Four' and went to Bloom High School, dies at 80
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Ex-Yankee Star, Controversial Best-Selling Author Jim Bouton Dies
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SABR 47: Listen to highlights from Jim Bouton: A Life in Baseball panel – Society for American Baseball Research
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TOP 17 QUOTES BY JIM BOUTON
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Jim Bouton: A remembrance of the ballplayer's time in the Met League
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Jim Bouton, 1939–2019 – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee
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Jim Bouton: A remembrance of the ballplayer's time in the Met League
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This is a story Yankee pitcher and 'Ball Four' author Jim Bouton didn't want told – New York Daily News
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Jim Bouton: A remembrance of the ballplayer's time in the Met League
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TOP 17 QUOTES BY JIM BOUTON