Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four” is still regarded more than 50 years after its publication as perhaps the greatest sports memoir ever. The events in “Foul Ball” take place more than 30 years later, with Bouton retired in Western Massachusetts. He and a friend spearhead a campaign to save and renovate a historic ballpark, as opposed to building an $18 million new stadium. His intriguing journey takes him through small-city politics, independent league maneuvering, a massive environmental cover-up, and local media’s conflicts of interest. Bouton, as usual, pulls no punches in his accounting of events. “Foul Ball,” as “Ball Four” did before it, will make you cheer and jeer, laugh and cry, and — most critically — THINK.
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