| Description |
x, 347 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A Note to Readers -- Ring Lardner tells his sad, sad story to the world -- Memoirs of a baseball scribe (Part 1) -- Memoirs of a baseball scribe (Part 2) -- Twenty-six Cubs will be taken on Southern journey -- The peerless leader takes charge -- Record crowd opens Forbes Field -- P.L.s team leads Arabella to the altar -- Pullman pastimes: Frank Schulte is his own entertainer -- Pullman pastimes: Dawson's reform credited to two Cubs -- The Rustlers go marching through Georgia -- The first game -- Cubist baseball -- RING'S ALL-STARS -- TY COBB MEETS BABE RUTH -- BASEBALL POEMS -- BETWEEN INNINGS: RING ON RACE -- THE WORLD SERIOUS -- SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE GAME. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
"Reproduced from The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner, edited by Ron Rapoport, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press"--t.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 347). |
| Subject |
Sports -- United States.
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Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Sports.
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Sports journalism -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Rapoport, Ron, editor of compilation.
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| ISBN |
9781493080991 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
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