The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W.Lardner, 1914-19 - Hardcover

Lardner, Ring W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804724059 ISBN 13: 9780804724050

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is an annotated and copiously illustrated edition of 24 baseball stories by Ring W. Lardner, including the six classic stories later collected as You Know Me Al. Two-thirds of the stories describe real teams, real players, and real situations, and the annotation and illustrations serve to identify the references of early twentieth-century major league baseball that Lardner covered as a reporter.

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Review:

"Meticulous notes help the modern reader laugh all the harder at lines like 'Crawford got the luckiest three-base hit I ever see' by noting that Wahoo Sam Crawford of the Detroit Tigers was the most prolific triples hitter in baseball history."--New York Times Book Review

"I'll give this book the ultimate reviewer's accolade. If it hadn't been sent to me to review, I would have gone out and bought it anyway. If you're a lover of baseball or American literature, you will, too."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"24 humorous and revealing baseball stories [are] collected in this beautifully illustrated volume. . . Offers photos of the real players mentioned in the stories and footnotes about real events. A gem."--San Francisco Chronicle

"After eight decades the tales remain as charming as ever, and the annotations and illustrations will multiply the enjoyment for any reader, new or old."--American Heritage

"Already timeless pieces of fiction in their own right, Lardner's stories benefit from the historical context that Hilton's annotations and pictures provide."--Choice

"This book is a superb introduction to the work of Ring Lardner for a new generation of readers. . . . Hilton's annotations are informational and entertaining."--Antiquarian Bookman

Synopsis:

It is not surprising that baseball should have inspired a literary masterpiece: the baseball stories of Ring W. Lardner. This is an annotated and copiously illustrated edition of twenty-four short stories published between 1914 and 1919, including the six stories later collected as You Know Me Al. Two-thirds of the stories describe real teams, real players, and real events - which Lardner covered as a reporter. The extensive annotation establishes the stories' relationship to the real world of early baseball. In the process, it illuminates the early culture of the major leagues, as well as the methods and sources of Lardner's baseball fiction. It also identifies each actual person appearing in the stories, along with ball parks, theatres, individual games, slang, nicknames, and a host of other things. The book's one hundred and eleven illustrations are mostly photographs of players, teams, ball parks, and other baseball memorabilia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0804724059
• ISBN 13: 9780804724050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 648
• Editor: Hilton George W.