Bouton retired the first three batters in order and ran to the dugout in jubilation. He was, by that point, more famous as the author of the best-selling memoir “ Ball Four,” which tracks Bouton’s season knuckleballing for the expansion Seattle Pilots and the Houston Astros, than he was as a player his start for the Braves was mostly seen as a publicity stunt arranged by the team’s young owner, Ted Turner. Bouton was thirty-nine years old and hadn’t pitched in the majors in eight seasons. On Sunday, September 10, 1978, Jim Bouton took the mound for the Atlanta Braves against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The baseball player Jim Bouton, who died on Wednesday at the age of eighty, told truths that other players couldn’t risk telling.
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