“Sports books always had these upbeat titles, ‘ Running to Daylight,’” Bouton said a few years later.
The book’s title itself cued readers into the idea that this would be a baseball book like no other. The ability of Ball Four to resonate unlike any sports book that had come before led to the swift and furious response to it as soon as excerpted sections hit the newsstands in the June 2, 1970, edition of Look magazine.
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