The Cool of the Evening

Paula Kurman shares her forty-year love story with baseball legend Jim Bouton in her heartfelt memoir, The Cool of the Evening .   “I am among the most fortunate of women. I loved Jim Bouton and was well and truly loved by him for more than four decades. It doesn’t get any better than that.”   They met on October 15, 1977, at Bloomingdale’s department store in Hackensack, New Jersey.  Jim Bouton, Major League pitcher, twenty-one game winner for the New York Yankees, and author of