![]() ![]() ![]() This was important information for a kid being force-fed nonsense by the shovelful at home, school, and church. (We didn't yet have Twitter to teach us that.) More importantly, people in charge of adults were as foolish, hidebound, and unthinkingly habit-ruled as people in charge of children. ![]() The same kinds of bullshitting, back-biting, and infighting that went on among us kidsand I mean the exact same kindswent on among full-grown adults. Come to find out, the ballplayers I idolized were very much like us kidsa bunch of dorks, mostly, just taller and older. ![]() It told all sorts of things a nine-year-old had no idea he needed to know. It wasn't a "tell-all" it was a tell-it-like-it-is. But when I read it in 1970, at the age of nine, it was more like a revelation. Apart from the nostalgia of it, I still find the book humorous and human. I'll probably continue to read it every few years as long as I live. I first read it as a kid (many times), and again as an adult (many times). I don't know which is the most important book ever written about baseball, but the most important for me and multitudes of others will always be Ball Four. ![]()
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