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RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:29 am
by Petert
One of my favorite ballplayers, dating back to when I was a kid. I was fortunate to have crossed paths with him later in life through baseball, and always found him engagingly funny, intelligent, and willing to discuss any and all aspects of the sport. A great guy.
Rest In Peace, Bulldog.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/spor ... r.amp.html
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:47 am
by Hy Feiber
Petert wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:29 am
One of my favorite ballplayers, dating back to when I was a kid. I was fortunate to have crossed paths with him later in life through baseball, and always found him engagingly funny, intelligent, and willing to discuss any and all aspects of the sport. A great guy.
Rest In Peace, Bulldog.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/spor ... r.amp.html
#56?
His hat fell off all the time!
Wrote the controversial Ball Four, Persona non Grata from then on!
Banished by the Yankees.
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:17 am
by Petert
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:02 pm
by Donn Beach
was in the movie "The Long Goodbye"
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:09 pm
by Hy Feiber
Weird career, had two Great seasons early on, then fell off a cliff, still had a 3.57 Career ERA.
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:12 pm
by D-train
What did he call it in the book when the used to go on the roof of the team hotel and watch women in another hotel across the street?
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:38 pm
by Donn Beach
beaver shooting...they went under the bleachers at Sicks stadium, they were wooden benches.
Career wasn't so weird really, he tore his shoulder, back then it was a sore arm. We like to talk about the guys that could throw 300 innings a season, but we tend to not consider the guys that fell by the wayside with injuries
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:47 pm
by Donn Beach
“John Gelnar brought a pair of binoculars to the bullpen and we took turns looking into the stands. Then somebody said that we better not let the umpires catch us with binoculars in the bullpen – they’re liable to think we’re stealing signs. And I said, ‘No. If we explain we’re shooting beaver, they’ll understand.’ And they would. If there’s a baseball universal, that’s it.”
“That’s the great thing about our ballpark. When a homerun disappears off you over the fence your eye catches a glimpse of the majesty of Mt. Rainier and some of that bad feeling goes away.”
“Police arrested a twenty-two year-old blonde who had climbed a tree outside our clubhouse and was peeping at us in the shower. A female beaver shooter.”
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:52 pm
by Petert
Yeah, ‘beaver shooting’ and ‘scoping’. The Shoreham Hotel in DC is the place he mentioned in particular. It’s built in a ‘U’ shape, so being up on the roof, one can see the central and opposite wings with ease.
Re: RIP Jim Bouton
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:54 pm
by D-train
Petert wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:52 pm
Yeah, ‘beaver shooting’ and ‘scoping’. The Shoreham Hotel in DC is the place he mentioned in particular. It’s built in a ‘U’ shape, so being up on the roof, one can see the central and opposite wings with ease.
How times have changed. Now guys make so much money they have two or three naked women in their room stealing their jewelry. lol