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Bouton : the life of a baseball original /
"Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part One: The Bulldog
- 1. Warm-up Bouton
- 2. Take a Hike, Son
- 3. Joliet
- 4. You Should Write a Book
- 5. A Long Way from Amarillo
- 6. Fucking Shecter
- 7. All 'Bout Bouton
- 8. A Threat, Not a Fine
- 9. The Bulldog and the Chipmunks
- 10. Rebel without a Fastball
- 11. The Youth of America Is for Kids
- 12. The End of the Line
- Part Two: The Author
- 13. Beginnings
- 14. From Tell-Some to Tell-All
- 15. Take Your Pants Off, Bouton
- 16. Fuck You, Shakespeare
- 17. Protectors of the Holy Flame
- 18. Against the Unwritten Rules of Baseball
- 19. Not Enough Sex
- 20. The Leni Riefenstahl of the National Football League
- 21. Taking It Personally
- 22. Bad Stuff 'bout the Mets
- Part Three: The Iconoclast
- 23. Not Selling Refrigerators
- 24. The Most Famous Vasectomy in New York
- 25. Are We Rolling?
- 26. One Smart-Ass and Four Lawyers
- 27. You're a Long Time Dead
- 28. The Battered Bastard of Baseball
- 29. Gilligan's Island in Baseball Suits
- 30. Too Old, Too Everything
- 31. Magic
- 32. Dreaming in Baseball
- 33. Mask of the Bulldog
- 34. Hey, New York-Bouton's Back!
- 35. Lightning in a Pouch
- 36. The Solo Artist
- 37. Laurie
- 38. Existential Bad Faith
- 39. A Mile in Bowie's Shoes
- 40. Cashing Out
- 41. The Butter-Yellow Box
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index