You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
Fictional work
By: Ring Lardner
Date: 1916
Source: Lardner, Ring. You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916; 1925, 9–18.
About the Author: Ring Lardner (1885–1933), a journalist and author, was one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. He wrote for many newspapers including The Chicago Tribune, The Sporting News, and The Saturday Evening Post. The National Baseball Hall of Fame selected Lardner in 1963 as the second recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing." The first person to receive the award was J.G. Taylor Spink himself.
Introduction
Ring Lardner gained notoriety in the twentieth century as both one of the world's best sports writers and one of its finest satirists. Lardner combined these two attributes in a memorable series of columns in...
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