Paula Kurman Bio, Wiki

Paula Kurman was born on January 1st, 1938 as per public records and is currently 81 years old. She is renown for being the wife to Bouton Jim Bouton,  an American professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978.

Bouton died at home on July 10, 2019, after weeks of hospice care for cerebral amyloid angiopathy, at age 80.

Paula Kurman Career

Paula Kurman is a speech therapist among other professions. She worked with her husband arduously for six months, helping Bouton regain his speaking ability after he was diagnised with disease called cerebral amyloid angiopathy that is linked to dementia in 2012.

Paula Kurman and Jim Bouton

Paula Kurman and Jim Bouton married on June 27th, 1982. A 2017 MLB News article in their intro wrote; “After 35 years, there’s obviously still a love affair between Jim Bouton and his wife, Paula Kurman. The two have been together so long they can finish each other’s sentences, which now for Paula is imperative.” At the time of his death, Paula and Bouton had been together for 39 years.

In 2012, Jim Bouton was struck with what his wife said was a “devastating” stroke. Along with it came bleeding in his brain and a disease called cerebral amyloid angiopathy that is linked to dementia. Despites his condtion, Bouton still recalled some aspects, but at times loses his stream of thought. At that point, Paula steps in for him and finishes the story. That’s the way it is every moment, every day.

Paula Kurman, who’s a speech therapist among other professions, worked with her husband arduously for six months, helping Bouton regain his speaking ability. Speaking at the Society for American Baseball Research convention back in 2017, she said: “We just challenged him. He’s so smart,” Kurman said after the hour-long panel discussion concluded. “They started him out in the hospital, asking him how to throw a knuckleball and talking about baseball in an attempt to get his speech back. He’s just smart and resourceful and stubborn.”

About his speech, Paula said: “He got some of it back. He didn’t get all of it back. He got better and better and better that first year. And then I began to notice that there were things that weren’t all right like his ability to contemporize, his ability to understand the concept of money. And I knew something else was going on.”

Paula Kurman & Jim Bouton Children & Grandchildren

Paula Kurman was previously married before her relationship with Bouton and has 2 children from her first marriage. Bouton was also previously married to his first wife Bobbie. He and Bobbie had two children together, Michael and Laurie, and adopted a Korean orphan, Kyong Jo. Kyong Jo later changed his name to David. Bobbie and Bouton divorced in 1981. Bouton’s daughter, Laurie was killed in a car crash in 1997. They have six grandchildren: Alexandria Bouton, Jack Bouton, Georgia Kurman, Annabel Kurman, Skyler van der Hoeven and Aspen van der Hoeven.

Back on June 27th, 2018, Jim Bouton took the most meaningful game of his storied career which was intended to showcase her grandkids his playing career. In the crowd were 54 guests of the 79-year-old knuckleballer, including his six grandchildren — four girls and two boys, ranging in age from 7 to 18 — who have never seen “Bulldog” in uniform. Speaking to the Daily News, from their home in the Berkshires, Bouton and his wife, Paula Kurman said: “This will be the first and possibly the last time that all of our grandchildren will see their grandfather in uniform and on the field,” says Kurman. “The last time he was there, the oldest grandchild wasn’t even here, and now she’s on her way to college.”

Who is Jim Bouton? His Book, “Ball Four”, Illness & His Death & Cause

James Alan Bouton was born on March 8th, 1939 and died on July 10th, 2019. He was an American professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978. He was also a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew.

Bouton died on Wednesday at his home in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. He was 80. He died after a long struggle with vascular dementia, said his wife, Paula Kurman. Bouton had a stroke in 2012, and in 2017 revealed he had a brain disease called cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

Bouton authored the baseball book Ball Four, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the Yankees, Pilots, and Astros. “Ball Four,” is a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s diary that tainted the game’s wholesome image. When it was published in 1970, “Ball Four,” which reported on the selfishness, dopiness, childishness, and meanspiritedness of young men often lionized for playing a boy’s game very well, was viewed by many readers, either approvingly or not, as a scandalous betrayal of the so-called sanctity of the clubhouse.

Ball Four which was Bouton’s account of the 1969 baseball season, seven years after his big-league debut with the Yankees, had a larger narrative — namely his attempt, at age 30, to salvage a once-promising career by developing the game’s most peculiar and least predictable pitch: the knuckle.