Jim Bouton

CBS will have baseball on prime time this fall, which is a startling turn of events, because the last time anyone looked, the other two networks had a $92.8-million hammer-lock on the rights to televise the sport....

Locker-room confessionals are all the rage these days. Athletes (with ghost-writers securely in tow) line up at every door along publishers' row, hopeful of peddling their "tell-it-like-it-is" burblings for sums that...

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Well-known author, announcer and tattletale Jim Bouton did not have to make much of a pitch to get the role of Terry Lennox in the forthcoming movie The Long Goodbye. "I went figuring there would be a big screen...