About the Author:
RING LARDNER is considered the greatest writer of all time on the sport of baseball. His works include You Know Me, Al, Gullible's Travels, Treat 'Em Rough, The Real Dope, Own Your Own Home, The Big Town, and many others. He died in 1933, at the age of forty-eight.
JEFF SILVERMAN, a former columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and several national magazines. He is also editor of The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told (page 206), Classic Baseball Stories (page 14), The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told (page 169), Classic Golf Stories (page 170), Bernard Darwin on Golf (page 21), and The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told (page 206). He lives with his family in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Review:
"This collection will be a valuable addition to larger sports collections."-- Library Journal
"Ring Lardner was to baseball writing what Ty Cobb was to baseball playing in the first quarter of the 20th century. It is debatable whether the ESPN generation will appreciate Lardner's folksy, colloquial style or the subtle satire that lies just beneath the surface in much of his work. Yet Shakespeare isn't the most fun read for many of us today either, and much can still be gained from sampling him. This collection will be a valuable addition to larger sports collections."--Library Journal
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