So so pitcher with the Yankees....wrote BallFfour a book which brought Beaver Shooting into the limelight were it belonged

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Ah, shitfuck.

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Bloom High School Chicago Heights. Same as Terry Boers.

Did he ever strike you out when he was at Bloom and you were at Argo?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Missed this thread.

Great book. Quick read. A little rueful, but also hilarious.

He comes off a bit like an ass****, but a) he's a pro athlete, and b) I think he was trying to be as honest as possible. The stuff about amphetamines is all there, as are conflicting memories of # 7. I guess I expected Mickey to act the way he did--he was Mickey Mantle--but he had his cool side, too. I could see why Mickey was a little pissed off at the book--but I could also see how others would be, too.

But Bouton is realistic about himself being an ass and a washed-up pitcher, too. It was sad to see him trying to come back from a career-ending injury and having to reinvent himself as a pitcher for an awful team (two awful teams). You really get the feel of what it was like to be a big-leaguer on the bottom of the hierarchy. Or perhaps it's about someone who was on top of the world at a young age, and now is fighting for a bullpen spot on the worst team in the league.

Bouton was also the inventor of Big League Chew gum.

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