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- The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America’s press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting 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 sportswriting at the top of its game.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xx
- Part 1: In a Class by Themselves
- Down Great Purple Valleys
- pp. 3-18
- Part 2: Bats and Brawls
- Babe Herman
- pp. 39-48
- Good-by to All That
- pp. 49-51
- Memoirs of Old Satch
- pp. 52-54
- Most Blood for Your Money
- pp. 55-57
- The Home of the Bean and the Kid
- pp. 58-60
- The World’s Richest Problem Child
- pp. 61-63
- Hard-way Bill on the Mississippi
- pp. 64-66
- They Walked by Night
- pp. 67-76
- Baseball Eye
- pp. 77-79
- Passing of an Unlicensed Hero
- pp. 80-82
- The All-American Rookie
- pp. 83-85
- Ball Fans and Other Primates
- pp. 86-88
- Memoirs of a Mild Fanatic
- pp. 89-91
- Razor Blades Amok
- pp. 92-94
- The Space Revolution
- pp. 95-97
- Part 3: Cauliflower Alley
- Morgan on Jaws
- pp. 101-103
- Bag Hits Baer
- pp. 104-106
- The Boy Bandit
- pp. 107-109
- Upsy Downsy
- pp. 110-112
- Death of a Simian and a Scholar
- pp. 113-115
- The Case of the Chilly Giant
- pp. 116-118
- Mr. Percentage
- pp. 119-121
- Life with Eddie
- pp. 122-124
- The Sweet and the Tough
- pp. 125-127
- John Arthur Johnson
- pp. 128-130
- Fun at the Scales
- pp. 131-133
- Now Pitching for Bartlett’s
- pp. 134-136
- When in Doubt, Hang the Judge
- pp. 137-139
- No Scar, No Memory
- pp. 140-142
- Part 4: Cautionary Tales
- The Life and Loves of the Real McCoy
- pp. 145-160
- Mysterious Montague
- pp. 161-168
- Battling Siki
- pp. 169-185
- Part 5: Other Precincts
- The Roller Derby
- pp. 189-196
- Sleeper for ’44
- pp. 197-199
- The Old Postgraduate Try
- pp. 200-202
- Rooney’s Ride
- pp. 203-205
- An Angel on Horseback
- pp. 206-208
- Little Bill
- pp. 209-211
- Strong Cigars and Lovely Women
- pp. 212-214
- What Was That Again?
- pp. 215-217
- Mr. Jacoby and the National Folly
- pp. 218-220
- The Best of the Browsers
- pp. 221-223
- Maybe in Memoriam
- pp. 224-226
- The Life of T-ts Sh-r
- pp. 227-229
- What Price Olympic Peace?
- pp. 230-238
- Part 6: Two for the Money
- Titanic Thompson
- pp. 241-257
- The Sack of Shelby
- p. 258
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803234406
Related ISBN(s)
9780803230477
MARC Record
OCLC
694146389
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No