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Informationen zum Autor Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was one of the most popular and innovative American writers of the early twentieth century. He influenced many writers who followed, with his acute observations winning praise from Hemingway, Woolf, Fitzgerald, and Wilson and his short stories remain popular a century later. Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Daily News and is the author of numerous books about sports and show business. In 2016 he was awarded the Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism. James Lardner is a writer and political activist who lives outside Washington DC. Klappentext Ring Lardner (1885–1933) was one of the most popular and innovative American writers of the early twentieth century. He influenced many writers who followed! with his acute observations winning praise from Hemingway! Woolf! Fitzgerald! and Wilson and his short stories remain popular a century later.¿Ron Rapoport was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Daily News and is the author of numerous books about sports and show business. In 2016¿he was awarded the Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism. James Lardner is a writer and political activist who lives outside Washington DC. Zusammenfassung 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by James Lardner Introduction A Note to Readers Ring Lardner Tells His Sad, Sad Story to the World 1. Getting Started South Bend Has Cause to Be Proud of Athletic Record the Past Year 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 2. Baseball The First Game Ring’s All-Stars Peaches Graham: Nine Men in One Ty Cobb’s Inside Baseball Ping Bodie’s Monologue Matty Mordecai Brown: The Reporter’s Friend Noisy John Kling Casting Stones with Rollie Zeider Casey in the Field How to Pitch to Babe Ruth Baseball Poems The World Serious 1909 Exhausted Tigers Extend Series 1912 The Tears of Christy Mathewson 1915 A Plea for Help A Rainy Day in Philadelphia 1916 Your Correspondent Sizes Up the Series Lardner Story Starts as Verse, Turns to Prose as Fattens Purse Inning by Inning with the Red Sox and Robins Nothing Happened 1917 Report from Behind Enemy Lines The Modern Voltaire 1918 18 Holes 1919 A Hot Tip from the Umpire Kid’s Strategy Goes Amuck as Jake Doesn’t Die A Dirty Finger on the Ball 1920 No Need to Bribe Brooklyn Ring Splits Double-Header 1921 Lardner Hitting 1., Peaved at Weatherman Scribes Saved from Overflow of Brains 1922 The Most Important World Series in History The Fur Coat Is Already Bought Mr. Lardner Corrects a Wrong Impression It Looks Bad for the Three Little Lardner Kittens Yanks Lose, But Lardner Kittens Spared 1923 Fans Agrog as Series Opens Only One Team Could Lose that Game 1925 Blizzards and Politics Hit Pirate Punch 1927 Ring Hears the Game He Is Seeing Some Final Thoughts on the Game Oddities of Bleacher Bugs Kill the Umpire Why Ring Stopped Covering Baseball Br’er Rabbit Ball 3. Ring Goes to War A War Ballad Why I Can’t Fight A Free Trip to...
