Jim Bouton
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/01/2004 08:11 pm by admin
What novel changed your life?
When I was 9 years old I read Jim Bouton’s Ball Four and theimage of my heroes was destroyed.
Several things have changed my life, not necessarily for the better.
In JHS, I was given a book by an elderly neighbor to read, “Animal Farm,” and after reading that book, I went to the library and borrowed, “1984.” Those two books motivated me to become an avid reader.
While in HS, a bully told me, “Move, stupid,” and I gave him one of my patented replies, “Talking to yourself?” and he turned around and asked, “What, you think I’m stupid?” and I replied, “Don’t flatter yourself… I don’t think of you at all!” After the class, the teacher asked me if I had read, “The Fountainhead,” by Ayn Rand. I had never even heard of the book, so the next day she brought me in her copy and gave it to me. That book has since become my bible.
Years later, I read Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” “Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah,” and “There’s No Such Place As Far Away.” These books inspired me to want to go to college, at 29 1/2 years of age!
I was living with bitterness when I started college; I had put my wife through college with the understanding that I would go afterward; her family interfered constantly, and finally succeeded in driving a wedge in my marriage with accusations of my being a philanderer! My nature is not to defend myself but to ignore; I never expressed my feelings outwardly to anyone (it’s my nature never to let others know they’ve annoyed or hurt me). I separated from my wife under very unpleasant circumstancees. I came across the book written by Richard Bach’s son, who grew up having divorced parents, and sensing his mother’s hostility and resentment toward his absent father… the book, “Above The Clouds: a Reunion of Father and Son,” helped me understand how my own child was poisoned against me, even though we were inseparable prior to my separation from her mother, who is to this day very bitter and moreso now that she has discovered how wrong she was for listening to her sister!
Ball Four Jim Bouton Sportscenter Segment 1970s
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