bouton: the life of a baseball original

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.

Mitchell Nathanson is a professor of law in the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at the Villanova University School of Law. He is the author of God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen, A People’s History of Baseball, and The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit.