(via Jim Bouton, Author of Tell-All Baseball Memoir ‘Ball Four,’ Dies at 80 - The New York Times)
Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s diary that tainted the game’s wholesome image, died on Wednesday at his home in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. He was 80.
February 1942. “Weslaco, Texas. Saturday afternoon baseball game at Mercer G. Evans FSA camp.” Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
December 1941. “Baseball game at school of Tygart Valley Homesteads. Dailey, West Virginia.” Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
January 1942. “Saturday morning baseball game. Farm Security Administration camp in Robstown, Texas.” Photo by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
(via Film Noir Photos: @Play with Elizabeth Taylor)
with Frank Sinatra at a Hollywood Stars Baseball Game, 1949
Baseball game between women from the “Eager Beavers” and officers of the Regina Rifle Regiment… / Partie de baseball opposant l’équipe féminine des Eager Beavers à des officiers du Regina Rifle Regiment… (by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives)