Looking back four decades later, Bouton explained how “Ball Four” permitted sports writers to cover the game with a lens that went far beyond the details of the box score and their on-field accomplishments. It raised the bar on reporting on the game and helped pave the way for countless candid books and reporting on it.” Bouton's (and his editor, Leonard Schecter's) work was imbued with a cerebral, journalistic and timeless quality.
“Before ‘Ball Four,’ books on the national pastime were mostly flat, unmemorable tomes, easy to produce, and even easier to read and forget.
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