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Ball Four at Forty

In 1963, his second year in the majors, 24-year-old hard-throwing righty Jim Bouton won 21 games for the Yankees, helping them to the American League pennant. He added 18 more wins the following year, plus two more in a losing cause in the World Series. Then Bouton hurt his arm, and his career tumbled ...
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