Legal scholar and baseball historian Mitch Nathanson discusses the amazing and interesting life of Jim Bouton.  He talks about his early days  as how he wasn’t even the best pitcher on his high school baseball team.  Scouts went to see his teammate Jerry Colangelo.  He goes into his early baseball success with the Yankees in the 1963 and 1964 World Series.  Nathanson explains how Bouton’s life changed with the release of Ball Four, Bouton’s baseball account of life with the Seattle Pilots.  Bouton became a controversial figure basically being blacklisted.  Mitch then discusses Bouton’s life on TV and his role in the invention of Big League Chew.  He finishes with the importance of Jim Bouton on the game of baseball.

HOST:  Rob Mellon

FEATURED BREW:  Natural Light, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, MO

BOOK:  Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496217707/

MUSIC:  Bones Fork