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Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues is a book by Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Shecter and first published in 1970. The book is a diary of Bouton's 1969 season, spent with the Seattle Pilots and then the Houston Astros following a late-season trade. Bouton also recounts much of his…
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The extracted context around Ball Four shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ball Four → Baseball, Bouton, Bouton's, Bowie Kuhn, Dick Young, Fuck, Many, Pete Rose, Shakespeare, Shecter Another extracted example is Ball Four → Bouton, Houston, Joe Schultz, Leonard Shecter, Pilots, Sal Maglie, Seattle Pilots, Shecter, Yankees. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 36 structured relationships around Ball Four. Examples in this analysis include Ball Four → Author → Jim Bouton with Leonard Shecter and Ball Four → Genre → Autobiography. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ball Four | Author | Jim Bouton with Leonard Shecter | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Genre | Autobiography | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Media type | Print (Hardcover) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Pages | 371 (first edition) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Publication date | June 17, 1970 (1970-06-17) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Publication place | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Publisher | World Publishing Company | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | Subject | Baseball | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ball Four | related to Legacy | Bouton | 0.60 | section |
| Ball Four | related to Legacy | Commissioner Kuhn | 0.60 | section |
| Ball Four | related to Legacy | I'm Glad You Didn't | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Ball Four bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Four, Baseball and Bouton. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
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TTTA analyzes the structure around Ball Four to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections & Legacy, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Ball Four · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout