Frank Chance''s Diamond The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner

At one time Ring Lardner's baseball articles reached millions of readers through more than one hundred newspapers throughout America. This book contains Lardner's columns as well as examples of Lardner's coverage of a number of World Series-including the notorious 1919 Black Sox Series.

About the author

Ron Rapoport is a sportswriter and author who lives in Santa Monica, California. He was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Daily News and was sports commentator for National Public Radio's “Weekend Edition Saturday” for two decades. He also wrote about sports for the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press in New York and San Francisco. He is the recipient of the Ring Lardner Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism and has written numerous books about sports and show business. His latest book, published in 2019 by Hachette Books, is Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, The Life of Ernie Banks.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Rapoport, Rapoport Ron
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2024
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Ball sport
• EAN: 9781493080991
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-8099-1
• Pages: 360
• Subjects: USA, Baseball, sports, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Essays & Writings, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Reportage & collected journalism, Babe Ruth, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, 20th Century History, ty cobb, Casey Stengel, World Series, United States History, baseball books, baseball fans, 1920s America, Christy Mathewson, baseball journalism, baseball lovers, rollie zeider, baseball reporting, 1919 black sox series, jim schekard, frank schulte, three finger mordecai brown, johnny kling, peaches graham, heine zimmerman