The first of the sports tell-all books, Bouton wrote this diary of a baseball season and blew the lid off the culture of baseball in the late '60s, when sportswriters gave athletes their privacy. Bouton doesn't, so you hear about the prevalence of amphetamines, who's an alcoholic, the dimwittedness of management, etc. Very funny, and I read it every year before baseball season starts :-) Warning, potty language :)