The John Lardner Reader
by Lardner, JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-10-01
Publisher(s): Bison Books
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Summary
This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humour and tireless reporting helped elevate sports-writing to art. The brilliant W. C. Heinz called Lardner "the best of us." This book shows why. Lardner applied his singular touch not only to his era's icons---Joe Louis, Ted Williams, Satchel Paige---but to the scamps, eccentrics, hustlers, and con men in the shadow of sports. Whether in snappy columns or leisurely magazine pieces, Lardner held sport of every description up to the light, forever changing the way people wrote, read, and thought about their heroes, from superstars to scrappers. These forty-nine pieces represent sports-writing at the top of its game.
Author Biography
John Lardner (1913–60), the son of legendary humorist Ring Lardner, was a columnist for Newsweek; a frequent and much-honored contributor to the New Yorker, True, and Sport; and the author of It Beats Working; Strong Cigars and Lovely Women; and White Hopes and Other Tigers. John Schulian’s work has been included in Best American Sports Writing and Sports Illustrated’s Fifty Years of Great Writing. His Twilight of the Long-ball Gods: Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball is available in a Bison Books edition. Dan Jenkins is the author of Jenkins at the Majors: 60 Years of the World’s Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| In a Class by Themselves | |
| Down Great Purple Valleys | p. 3 |
| "The Haig": Rowdy Rebel of the Fairways | p. 19 |
| Bats and Brawls | |
| Babe Herman | p. 39 |
| Good-by to All That | p. 49 |
| Memoirs of Old Satch | p. 52 |
| Most Blood for Your Money | p. 55 |
| The Home of the Bean and the Kid | p. 58 |
| The World's Richest Problem Child | p. 61 |
| Hard-way Bill on the Mississippi | p. 64 |
| They Walked by Night | p. 67 |
| Baseball Eye | p. 77 |
| Passing of an Unlicensed Hero | p. 80 |
| The All-American Rookie | p. 83 |
| Ball Fans and Other Primates | p. 86 |
| Memoirs of a Mild Fanatic | p. 89 |
| Razor Blades Amok | p. 92 |
| The Space Revolution | p. 95 |
| Cauliflower Alley | |
| Morgan on Jaws | p. 101 |
| Bag Hits Baer | p. 104 |
| The Boy Bandit | p. 107 |
| Upsy Downsy | p. 110 |
| Death of a Simian and a Scholar | p. 113 |
| The Case of the Chilly Giant | p. 116 |
| Mr. Percentage | p. 119 |
| Life with Eddie | p. 122 |
| The Sweet and the Tough | p. 125 |
| John Arthur Johnson | p. 128 |
| Fun at the Scales | p. 131 |
| Now Pitching for Bartlett's | p. 134 |
| When in Doubt, Hang the Judge | p. 137 |
| No Scar, No Memory | p. 140 |
| Cautionary Tales | |
| The Life and Loves of the Real McCoy | p. 145 |
| Mysterious Montague | p. 161 |
| Battling Siki | p. 169 |
| Other Precincts | |
| The Roller Derby | p. 189 |
| Sleeper for '44 | p. 197 |
| The Old Postgraduate Try | p. 200 |
| Rooney's Ride | p. 203 |
| An Angel on Horseback | p. 206 |
| Little Bill | p. 209 |
| Strong Cigars and Lovely Women | p. 212 |
| What Was That Again? | p. 215 |
| Mr. Jacoby and the National Folly | p. 218 |
| The Best of the Browsers | p. 221 |
| Maybe in Memoriam | p. 224 |
| The Life of T-ts Sh-r | p. 227 |
| What Price Olympic Peace? | p. 230 |
| Two for the Money | |
| Titanic Thompson | p. 241 |
| The Sack of Shelby | p. 258 |
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