Jim Bouton returns to Yankee Stadium for the first time in nearly thirty years. Bouton's banishment by the Yankees, for having written Ball Four, ended when his son Michael wrote a letter to the New York Times on Father's Day, asking the Yankees to let bygones be bygones.

"I climbed out of the dugout and started for first base. I felt unsteady, like I might topple over. I heard a roar. What if I fell down? I wondered. It seemed as if I was moving in slow motion, or underwater. At some point my hearing went out. I was moving in a white zone, watching myself slap hands with the other players. I took my place at the end of the line, numb, trying to figure out what had happened."

— From BALL FOUR:The Final Pitch

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