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You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
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After Veach had hit one in the eight Callahan calls me to the bench and says You're through for the day. I says It's about time you found out my arm was sore. He says I ain't worrying about your arm but I'm afraid some of our outfielders will run their legs off and some of them poor infielders will get killed. He says The reporters just sent me a message saying they had run out of paper. Then he says I wish some of the other clubs had pitchers like you so we could hit once in a while. He says Go in the clubhouse and get your arm rubbed off. That's the only way I can get Jennings sore he says.
Well Al that's about all there was to it. It will take two or three stamps to send this but I want you to know the truth about it. The way my arm was I ought never to of went in there.
Yours truly, Jack.
Chicago, Illinois, April 25.
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Community Reviews
Ring Lardner’s reputation suffers because he is funny. That Hemingway and Fitzgerald idolized him means nothing to the teachers that would rather assign Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As I tried to get through Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath in 11th grade I wish instead I would have been given the choice
Not being much of a sports fan, but for many years standing close beside one, I knew nothing of Ring Lardner until I visited Niles, Michigan, pursuing a story of my own. In a quaint hometown treasures museum, we discovered the local author gone national, with a first edition of "You Know Me Al" unde
The novelty kind of wears off but everything else that charmed me the first read through is all still there. If you think quips and wisecracks are funny, you will get a laugh out of this, and the main character is a recognizable every man trying to get by on his natural born gifts and little else.
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In the early 20th century baseball writing was becoming too overwrought and intellectual, so Ring Lardner wrote a baseball comedy - a series of letters from a minor league “busher” to his friend Al. This was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1914, and it’s very funny.
Earlier this
A compilation of letters from a fictional 1910's White Sox pitcher to his hometown friend Al about his trials and tribulations in the Major League, complete with hillarious misspellings and malapropisms. I give it four stars instead of five because it begins to wear a little thin toward the end.
I read this over a weekend. It is interesting in that the book is written one sided as a series of letters from one guy who is a ball player over to his friend back home. The time frame of this book is pre-WW1. So in that sense there are a number of name drops happening of baseball players who were
When I read this, it helped me to understand the baseball players in the Black Sox scandal. Although this book was published in 1916, I could see how a person like Jack Keefe, the player depicted in the story, could become entangled in a plot to fix the 1919 World Series.