Jim Bouton (1939-2019)

Jim Bouton's playing career was not without accomplishment.

As a 23 year old rookie, he was a member of the last Yankees World Series winner before the Great Fall, the sale to CBS, and the Years in the Wilderness. He became a fixture in the Bombers' rotation the next season, and he went 21-7, 2.53 and pitched in the All-Star Game. A larger audience saw him in the third game of the World Series that fall and was immediately struck by the sight of a young pitcher who threw so hard and so violently that his cap regularly flew off his head. They called him "Bulldog," naturally. In his World Series debut, he gave up a first inning run on an RBI single to Tommy Davis but that was all Bouton would…