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Frank Chance's Diamond - The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner
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Frank Chance's Diamond - The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner
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List price R677
Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
You Save R114 (17%)
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At one time Ring Lardner’s baseball articles reached millions of
readers through hundreds of newspapers throughout America, and
admirers of his writing included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmond
Wilson. He was as familiar to Americans in the 1920s as Charles
Lindbergh, Calvin Coolidge, and Babe Ruth. His articles about the
players he knew, his World Series coverage, his poems, parodies,
and jokes were unlike any other baseball reporting ever written,
both in his time and since. Even a hundred years later, Lardner’s
baseball journalism makes for delightful, often wildly funny,
reading and offers a glimpse of where his ground-breaking baseball
fiction came from. This book contain Lardner’s columns about
Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, and
Three-Finger Mordecai Brown as well as some fabulous lesser-known
characters like Frank Schulte, Heine Zimmerman, Jim Schekard,
Johnny Kling, Rollie Zeider, and Peaches Graham, as well as
examples of Lardner’s coverage of a number of World
Series—including the notorious 1919 Black Sox Series. Ron
Rapoport’s introduction puts Lardner in his time and place and
explains how his writing about baseball developed over the years.
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Imprint: |
The Lyons Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Ron Rapoport
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4930-8099-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4930-8099-7 |
Barcode: |
9781493080991 |
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