Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

While he did not play in the Yankees' 1962 World Series victory over the San Francisco Giants he had been slated to start game 7. In summer leagues Bouton did not throw particularly hard but he got batters out by mixing conventional pitches with the knuckleball that he had experimented with since childhood. But Bouton's effort would ultimately become much more widely known debated and discussed.