Into the Dugout

ever written about baseball is , Jim Bouton’s irreverent look at the 1969 baseball season. Over the course of the year, Bouton bounced from the New York Yankees, his club of seven seasons, to the minor leagues to the short-lived Seattle Pilots to the Houston Astros, trying to hang on as a big-league pitcher several years past his prime. Edited by sportswriter Leonard Shecter and published in 1970, is a work of genuine iconoclasm, the first widely read account of life in the Major Leagues that was not written in hushed tones.