Synopses & Reviews
“24 humorous and revealing baseball stories [are] collected in this beautifully illustrated volume. . . Offers photos of the real players mentioned in the stories and footnotes about real events. A gem.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Meticulous notes help the modern reader laugh all the harder at lines like ‘Crawford got the luckiest three-base hit I ever see by noting that Wahoo Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers was the most prolific triples hitter in baseball history.”—New York Times Book Review
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"24 humorous and revealing baseball stories [are] collected in this beautifully illustrated volume. . . Offers photos of the real players mentioned in the stories and footnotes about real events. A gem."San Francisco Chronicle
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"I'll give this book the ultimate reviewer's accolade. If it hadn't been sent to me to review, I would have gone out and bought it anyway. If you're a lover of baseball or American literature, you will, too."Cleveland Plain Dealer
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"After eight decades the tales remain as charming as ever, and the annotations and illustrations will multiply the enjoyment for any reader, new or old."American Heritage
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"This book is a superb introduction to the work of Ring Lardner for a new generation of readers. . . . Hilton's annotations are informational and entertaining."
Antiquarian Bookman"Already timeless pieces of fiction in their own right, Lardner's stories benefit from the historical context that Hilton's annotations and pictures provide."Choice
Synopsis
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.
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Extensively annotated and illustrated edition of an early baseball classic.
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This book is an annotated and copiously illustrated edition of twenty-four of the baseball stories of Ring W. Lardner. Two-thirds of the stories describe real teams, real players, and real events - which Lardner covered as a reporter. The extensive annotation establishes the stories' relationship to the real world of early baseball, and illuminates the early culture of the major leagues, as well as the methods and sources of Lardner's baseball fiction. It also identifies each actual person appearing in the stories, along with ball parks, theatres, individual games, slang and nicknames.
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This is an annotated and copiously illustrated edition of 24 baseball stories by Ring W. Lardner, including the six classic stories later collected as You Know Me Al. Two-thirds of the stories describe real teams, real players, and real situations, and the annotation and illustrations serve to identify the references of early twentieth-century major league baseball that Lardner covered as a reporter.
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24 humorous and revealing baseball stories [are] collected in this beautifully illustrated volume. . . Offers photos of the real players mentioned in the stories and footnotes about real events. A gem.”San Francisco ChronicleMeticulous notes help the modern reader laugh all the harder at lines like Crawford got the luckiest three-base hit I ever see by noting that Wahoo Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers was the most prolific triples hitter in baseball history.”New York Times Book ReviewIll give this book the ultimate reviewers accolade. If it hadnt been sent to me to review, I would have gone out and bought it anyway. If youre a lover of baseball or American literature, you will, too.”Cleveland Plain DealerAfter eight decades the tales remain as charming as ever, and the annotations and illustrations will multiply the enjoyment for any reader, new or old.”American HeritageThis book is a superb introduction to the work of Ring Lardner for a new generation of readers. . . . Hiltons annotations are informational and entertaining.”Antiquarian Bookman
Table of Contents
Part I. The Jack Keefe Stories: 1. A busher's letters home; 2. The busher comes back; 3. The busher's honeymoon; 4. A new busher breaks in; 5. The busher's kid; 6. The busher beats it hence; 7. Call for Mr. Keefe! 8. The busher re-enlists; 9. The battle of Texas; 10. Along came Ruth; 11. The courtship of T. Dorgan; 12. The busher pulls a Mays; Part II. The Individual Short Stories: 13. My roomy; 14. Sick 'em; 15. Horseshoes; 16. Back to Baltimore; 17. Alibi Ike; 18. Harmony; 19. The poor simp; 20. Where do you get that noise? 21. Good for the soul; 22. The crook; 23. The hold-out; 24. The yellow kid.