24 short stories, including the classic You Know Me Al

collection, appear together in this annotated and copiously illustrated edition. Most of the stories describe real teams, real players, and real situations, and the annotation identifies the many references to the real world of early major league baseball that Lardner covered as a reporter. Includes 111 illustrations of ball players, teams, ball parks, newspaper items, and other memorabilia of one of the most fascinating and eventful eras in baseball history.

24 short stories, including the classic You Know Me Al

collection, appear together in this annotated and copiously illustrated edition. Most of the stories describe real teams, real players, and real situations, and the annotation identifies the many references to the real world of early major league baseball that Lardner covered as a reporter. Includes 111 illustrations of ball players, teams, ball parks, newspaper items, and other memorabilia of one of the most fascinating and eventful eras in baseball history.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Lose with a Smile' is one of Lardner's many works of fiction. Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan in 1885. He studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, but did not complete his first semester. In 1907, Lardner obtained his first job as journalist with the South Bend Times. Six years later, he published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by 'Jack Keefe', a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. A huge hit, the book earned the appreciation of Virginia Woolf and others. Lardner went on to write such well-known short stories as 'Haircut', 'Some Like Them Cold', 'The Golden Honeymoon', 'Alibi Ike', and 'A Day with Conrad Green'.

THIS 48 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters, by Ring W. Lardner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417917156.

THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters, by Ring W. Lardner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417917156.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Stories for Men: An Anthology, by Ring W. Lardner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141911333X.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Great American Parade, by Ring W. Lardner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1419133047.

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Stories for Men: An Anthology, by Ring W. Lardner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141911333X.

First great success of Ring Lardner was ""You Know Me Al,"" a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slowly revealing the hero as a semiliterate, crude, conceited, self-deceiving boob. This work was created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It was later published in the book form in 1916. You Know Me Al shows Lardner as a satirical master: a fine and misanthropic storyteller with a excellent feel for the niceties of characters and speech.

1918. Lardner, American humorist and short-story writer, is known for his mordant wit, exemplified in satirical stories and sketches of American life in the early 20th century told in the language of athletes, stockbrokers, secretaries, chorus girls, etc. This volume contains a series of letters from Jack, who is stationed at Camp Grant, to his Friend Al, with tongue-in-cheek descriptions of life in the service. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1916. Lardner, American humorist and short-story writer, is known for his mordant wit, exemplified in satirical stories and sketches of American life in the early 20th century told in the language of athletes, stockbrokers, secretaries, chorus girls, etc. Contents: A Busher's Letters Home; The Busher Comes Back; The Busher's Honeymoon; A New Busher Breaks In; The Busher's Kid; and The Busher Beats It Hence. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1916. Lardner, American humorist and short-story writer, is known for his mordant wit, exemplified in satirical stories and sketches of American life in the early 20th century told in the language of athletes, stockbrokers, secretaries, chorus girls, etc. Contents: A Busher's Letters Home; The Busher Comes Back; The Busher's Honeymoon; A New Busher Breaks In; The Busher's Kid; and The Busher Beats It Hence. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.