You Know Me Al - Softcover

Lardner, Ring

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594566402 ISBN 13: 9781594566400

Publisher: BookSurge Classics, 2009

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious.

Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America--a time before the "live" ball, a time filled with names like Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte--this is not a simple period piece. It is about competition, about the ability to reason, and most of all it is about being human. First published in 1914, "You Know Me Al" says as much to us about ourselves today as it did seventy-five years ago.

About the Author:

Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, in 1885, and was a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune and the South Bend Times. He is considered by many to be among the greatest American authors of the early twentieth century. He died in 1933.

About this edition

• Publisher: BookSurge Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1594566402
• ISBN 13: 9781594566400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196