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Ex-MLB pitcher Jim Bouton, who wrote controversial bestseller 'Ball Four' and went to Bloom High School, dies at 80 – Chicago Tribune
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Sex, drugs and baseball: 'Ball Four' author Jim Bouton died 50 years after the Seattle Pilots' only season | The Seattle Times
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