Maybe the timing was off on this one. Whatever it was, this TV series based on the book by Jim Bouton, gave fake names to actual players in Baseball History. The real names are in the book. The book is hilarious. It's mostly a bunch of one or two page segments in a "diary" about the baseball season in 1969 of the expansion team the Seattle Pilots, and later, in more toned down humor, the Houston Astros when Bouton is traded to that team for Dooley Womack. In the book, we get a humanization of ball players in an era when the greatest superstars were more mortal in that they were lucky if they... read the rest.