Jim Bouton, the controversial author and former Yankees pitcher, referred to Miller as a mild-mannered professor who immediately became your friend.
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Practitioners throw a quirky pitch of unpredictable trajectory, requiring "the fingertips of a safecracker and the mind of a Zen Buddhist, " says former pitcher Jim Bouton in the film.
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But when I first put forth this idea of a relationship between clutch hitting and a pitcher choking in a Wall Street Journal column several years ago, I got a call from Jim Bouton.
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