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9781592288670

Foul Ball My Life And Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ball Park...plus Part II

Foul Ball My Life And Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ball Park...plus Part II
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  • ISBN-13: 9781592288670
  • ISBN: 1592288677
  • Publication Date: 2005
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The

AUTHOR

Bouton, Jim

SUMMARY

In his first diary since Ball Four, Jim Bouton recounts his amazing adventure trying to save an historic ballpark in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Host to organized baseball since 1892, Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another town-an all too familiar story. Enter Bouton and his partners with the best deal ever offered to a community-a locally owned professional baseball team and a privately restored city owned ballpark at no cost to the taxpayers. It was a dream come true for the vast majority of the people of Pittsfield. But Bouton's plan was opposed by an elite group of power brokers who wanted to build a new $18.5 million baseball stadium-a stadium that the people had voted against three different times! In what one reviewer called "that same humane, sarcastic voice," Bouton unmasks a mayor who brags that "the fix is in," a newspaper that lies to its readers, and a city government that operates out of a bar. And that's just Part I. Part II is the even more amazing story of what happened after this book was self published-a story in itself-in hardcover. Invited back to Pittsfield by newly elected city officials, Bouton and his partners raise $1.2 million, help uncover a document that dates Pittsfield's baseball origins to 1791, and stage a vintage baseball game that is broadcast live on national TV by ESPN Classic. Who could have guessed what would happen next? And that this time it would involve the Massachusetts Attorney General.Bouton, Jim is the author of 'Foul Ball My Life And Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ball Park...plus Part II', published 2005 under ISBN 9781592288670 and ISBN 1592288677.

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