From Bouton to Faulkner? Wonderfully catholic taste or interests. If you can stick w/ "serious literature" in the summer you're a better man or reader (or both) than I.Sterling Bigmouth wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 1:45 pmAfter starting and stopping Jim Bouton’s Ball Four a dozen times over the last decade, I finally read it through in one swing these last few weeks. It’s a classic for a reason. Some great stories from an era of baseball I’m not old enough to remember, but enough commentary to connect the game then to what we have today.
Gonna try to read some books this summer that I’ve neglected for some reason over the years. Starting with Faulkner and Absalom, Absalom!
I read Ball Four when it first came out and I loved it. I had the original hard cover until we had to dump most of our "library" due to mold issues.
I remember literally laughing out loud more than once. In its time Ball Four was quite shocking and groundbreaking, which no doubt seems quaint now. I'm sure the fact that I was 13 at the time had nothing to do with my extreme interest in his description of ballplayers' sex lives and the women who made them possible. 