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New York And Cleveland: World Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Second Printing. Hardcover. Light staining to boards; light coverwear including a bit of scuffing to front title; 1/4" tear top rear DJ at spine and tiny tear bottom front DJ at side edge .

World Publishing, 1970. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. 400 pages, fifth printing. Light wear, some yellowing to the pages; a solid binding; good overall. The jacket has some stains, wear and tears. Edited by Leonard Shecter. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Baseball; Inventory No: 206166. .

New York: World Publishing Company. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. Sixth Printing; Hardcover. Ex-Library; 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 2"; xiii, 400 pages; Hard cover. DJ. Former library book with typical marks. Pages are clean and tight. 'Ball Four might be the greatest baseball book ever written! Correction, Ball Four might be the greatest sports book ever written. What Bouton accomplished with Ball Four was to tear the cover off of professional sports by exposing the tangled core underneath the canned responses to interviews, the hagiography of sports heroes, and the mundane existence of living out of a suitcase for six months. The haloed Yankees hated this book as it painted their hero Mickey Mantle as less than a shining light, the fans didn't care for that either. Players thought it broke the sacred bonds of The Team. But Bouton was always an iconoclast; he cared and fought for what he thought was fair pay long before the free agent era, he talked to reporters in… Read More

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1st edition, 2nd printing, 1970. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 399 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth in white dust jacket, $6.95. Minor signs of shelf wear only, text is unmarked. Dust cover now protected in mylar sleeve.

World Publishing Company, January 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. First Edition. Fifth Printing. July, 1970.

World Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 7x9x2. 1970 World Publishing hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - some wear to dustjacket (now in mylar cover) some staining to cover and closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy

World Publishing. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1970. Seventh Printing. Hardcover, photos.. Book Very FINE. Feels like it was never read. Small owner name 1st page else NO notes or ANY other markings. DJ with nicking at spine ends, else FINE, no other defects, but price clipped. ; Ships in a box, USA. ; 400 pages .

New York: Dell Publishing Co.. 370pp. First Dell Printing - February 1971. Cover soiled with a crease near the front hinge, some hinge cracking. D7 . Good Minus. Paperback. First Paperback Edition.. 1971.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

World Publishing Company, 1970. hardcover. Like New. 7x9x2. Bouton signed (half title no inscription) 1993 Barnes & Noble issue first printing, looks unread, jacket shows touch of shelf wear. Please email for photos.

NY: BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS. RE-ISSUE, FLAT SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO HALF-TITLE PAGE. . VG. Hardcover. 1993.

The book that embarrassed baseball, Ball Four, My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues by Jim Bouton.First edition, signed by Bouton on the title page. Book and dust jacket are very good. There is fading to the boards of the book and previous owner's name stamped on bottom of title page. Minor tear on front of jacket and minor chipping.