Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton
James Alan "Jim" Boutonis an American retired professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseballas a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978. He has also been a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 March 1939
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
We broke in together in 1959. You never know who will make it.
Most players saw amphetamines as harmless. But the professional athlete does a lot of things to his body that they don't think of as harmful.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.
Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.
After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."
A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.
The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.