Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest 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.

Acknowledgments     Prologue: Publication Day     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: The Cool of the Evening     Notes     Bibliography     Index