And so the game's going on, and it gets tie score after nine innings. We get - stick somebody else in the outfield. So Mick is sleeping in the trainer's room. They understand you come to the ballpark once in a while with a hangover. And the manager says, you know, sleep it off.
So he comes into the ballpark the following morning, and he's hungover. I don't want to say Mickey was drunk, but he spent about a half an hour trying to make a telephone call from a grandfather's clock. And we'd been out the night before a game, having a few drinks - about 2 o'clock in the morning, I guess it was. I told about the time we were in Minnesota. And it wasn't really even so much as a put-down of Mickey Mantle as it was a story of what a great athlete he was. JIM BOUTON: I think the most controversial story in the book was I told about the time Mickey Mantle hit a home run with a hangover. Bouton spoke with Terry in 1986 and began with a story from "Ball Four" about Mickey Mantle. The book enraged players and some sportswriters and drew a rebuke from commissioner Bowie Kuhn, but it was a bestseller.Īfter a respectable baseball career, Bouton wrote several other books, did some acting and sportscasting and was a George McGovern delegate to the 1972 Democratic convention. He wrote about players getting drunk, peeping through keyholes at women and popping amphetamines like candy. In 1970, Bouton wrote the book "Ball Four," a raunchy insider's look at the game that drew heavily on Bouton's seven seasons with the New York Yankees. Jim Bouton, the former big-league pitcher better known for his prose than his fastball, died Wednesday at his home in Massachusetts.
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