Jim Bouton, the sore-armed pitcher for the New York Yankees and other teams whose "Ball Four" is widely considered the most important book about American sports ever written, died Wednesday, Major ...

Jim Bouton, the former All-Star pitcher for the New York Yankees who threw baseball the ultimate curve with the publication of his 1970 tell-all book, 'Ball Four,' has died. He was 80. By Ira Kaufman ...

The death of Jim Bouton at 80 saddens me, which I mention mostly because of how much that reaction has surprised me. Bouton was a New York Yankees pitcher who enjoyed some success in the early 1960s, ...

After going deaf at the age of 30, writer Katherine Bouton's entire life changed. In her new book, "Shouting Won't Help," Bouton shares how she came to terms with hearing loss, and why more attention ...

This was during the last and most brutal baseball strike, on an August afternoon in the terrible hot summer of 1994. Baseball was on most people’s hit list, which is the reason I’d gotten in my car ...

Drew Bouton was 45 when he found out he had metastatic prostate cancer. The diagnosis in 2001 was shocking, to him and to his doctor, who had assured him before test results came back that it probably ...

Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s ...