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One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first
published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a
bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch
for the Chicago White Sox. Set in pre World War I, the book is
comprised of letters that Keefe sends to his "old pal" Al. Through
the letters, the self-centered Keefe reveals his regular struggles
to maintain his position in the big leagues as well as his personal
life and juggle his financial difficulties. Nevertheless, the tales
from on and off the field as he travels with the team are full of
wit, insight, and entertainment. They include Keefe's encounters
with baseball legends such as Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter
Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte. In this edition of the book, which
includes a foreword by acclaimed writer John Thorn, readers can
relive all of the glory of this historic era of baseball through
the eyes of one of Ring Lardner's most comical characters, a
century after his creation! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our
Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of
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York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to
publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other
publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a
home.
Ring Lardner's influence on American letters is arguably greater
than that of any other American writer in the early part of the
twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his
groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country's
best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice
was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines.
Lardner's trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style,
along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles
wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron
Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner's journalism from his
earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the
Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which
appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In
these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of
the era-from Jack Dempsey's fights to the World Series and even an
America's Cup-he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition,
as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on
American life. The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces
this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the
rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who
remains contemporary to subsequent generations.
Ring Lardner, Jr.'s memoir is a pilgrimage through the American
century. The son of an immensely popular and influential American
writer, Lardner grew up swaddled in material and cultural
privilege. After a memorable visit to Moscow in 1934, he worked as
a reporter in New York before leaving for Hollywood where he served
a bizarre apprenticeship with David O. Selznick, and won, at the
age of 28, an Academy Award for the classic film, Woman of the
Year, the first on-screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine
Hepburn. In "irresistibly readable" pages (New Yorker), peopled by
a cast including Carole Lombard, Louis B. Mayer, Dalton Trumbo,
Marlene Dietrich, Otto Preminger, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bertolt Brecht,
Bert Lahr, Robert Altman, and Muhammad Ali, Lardner recalls the
strange existence of a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of
the studio system--an existence made stranger by membership in the
Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party. Lardner retraces
the path that led him to a memorable confrontation with the House
Un-American Activities Committee and thence to Federal prison and
life on the Hollywood blacklist. One of the lucky few who were able
to resume their careers, Lardner won his second Oscar for the
screenplay to M.A.S.H. in 1970.
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