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The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner /
"An anthology of journalist Ring Lardner's writings on sports and other nonfiction topics that collects works that have been mostly unavailable for decades"--
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Getting Started
- South Bend Has Cause to Be Proud of Athletic Record the Past Year
- Memoirs of a Baseball Scribe (Part 1)
- Memoirs of a Baseball Scribe (Part 2)
- Twenty-Six Cubs Will Be Taken on Southern Journey
- Peerless Leader Takes Charge
- Record Crowd Opens Forbes Field
- PL.'s Team Leads Arabella to the Altar
- Pullman Pastimes: Frank Schulte Is His Own Entertainer
- Pullman Pastimes: Dawson's Reform Credited to Two Cubs
- Rustlers Go Marching Through Georgia
- 2. Baseball
- First Game
- Ring's All-Stars
- Peaches Graham: Nine Men in One
- Ty Cobb's Inside Baseball
- Ping Bodie's Monologue
- Matty
- Mordecai Brown: The Reporter's Friend
- Noisy John Kling
- Casting Stones with Rollie Zeider
- Casey in the Field
- How to Pitch to Babe Ruth
- Baseball Poems
- World Serious
- 1909
- Exhausted Tigers Extend Series
- 1912
- Tears of Christy Mathewson
- 1915
- Plea for Help
- Rainy Day in Philadelphia
- 1916
- Your Correspondent Sizes Up the Series
- Lardner Story Starts as Verse, Turns to Prose as Fattens Purse
- Inning by Inning with the Red Sox and Robins
- Nothing Happened
- 1917
- Report from Behind Enemy Lines
- Modern Voltaire
- 1918
- 18 Holes
- 1919
- Hot Tip from the Umpire
- Kid's Strategy Goes Amuck as Jake Doesn't Die
- Dirty Finger on the Ball
- 1920
- No Need to Bribe Brooklyn
- Ring Splits Double-Header
- 1921
- Lardner Hitting 1.000, Peeved at Weatherman
- Scribes Saved from Overflow of Brains
- 1922
- Most Important World Series in History
- Fur Coat Is Already Bought
- Mr. Lardner Corrects a Wrong Impression
- It Looks Bad for the Three Little Lardner Kittens
- Yanks Lose, But Lardner Kittens Spared
- 1923
- Fans Agrog as Series Opens
- Only One Team Could Lose that Game
- 1925
- Blizzards and Politics Hit Pirate Punch
- 1927
- Ring Hears the Game He Is Seeing
- Some Final Thoughts On The Game
- Oddities of Bleacher Bugs
- Kill the Umpire
- Why Ring Stopped Covering Baseball
- Br'er Rabbit Ball
- 3. Ring Goes To War
- War Ballad
- Why I Can't Fight
- Free Trip to Europe
- Message to Sec. Baker
- Daddy's Alibi
- Ring Hears Government Plans to Scare Mexico
- Serve Your Country with a Minimum of Effort
- Good Tip to Friend Al
- E'en War So Grim Refuses to Dim Humor of Him
- Ball Game in France
- Setting Out for the Front
- On Being Bombed
- Letter to Home
- Back in Les Etats Unis
- What's the Matter with Kaiser Bill?
- Wake Travel Guide (European Branch)
- Do-Without Club
- Ring Can't Smile at War's End
- 4. Football
- Perils of Being a Football Writer
- Michigan Vs. Harvard: A Personal Odyssey
- Letter
- How I'll Get That Story
- Persunal Appeal
- Friend Indeed
- Perseverance Wins
- He Has It All Planned Out
- Fresh Guy
- Where There's Real Sport
- Please Don't Go and Ruin It All
- Blue Monday at Michigan
- Wolverines Off for East Today; Big Squad to Go
- Yost's Squad Loses Outfit; Railroad Fails to Drop Off Baggage, Handicapping Workout
- Yost's Cripples Meet Harvard in East Today
- Luck Favors Harvard in Beating Michigan
- 5. Politics
- If You Don't Know What He Writes About You Have Nothing on Him
- Ring Takes the "Pomp" Out of Pompey
- Key-Noting with Lardner
- United States of Old Glory
- Ring Is Through with Conventions But Fielder Jones is O.K.
- Me for Mayor
- Taxing Situation
- Starve with Hoover or Feast with Lardner
- Ring May Run with Debs on Prison Ticket
- Ring Says the Race Is Between Himself and Cobb
- It Looks Like a Stampede to Lardner
- Vice=Presidency
- Dressing for the Inauguration Is Some Job
- Simplicity Reigns in Washington
- Harding Inaugural Is Simps' Delight
- Presidential Golf
- Ring Organizes the Ku Klux Klan
- No Navy=No Fight
- War With Japan May Have to Be Fought with Postcards
- Coolidge Awaits Word of Landslide
- Lodge Nearly Achieves Acquaintance with Ring
- Double-Header in Cleveland Finds Gaps in Bleachers
- Ring Will Run Under One Condition
- Women Held to Blame for Long Session
- Ring Defends His Socks
- Ring Wants Bryan Lured Away
- Democrats Are Out to Set New World Record
- Ring Knew It All Along
- Ring's New Tax Bill to Include Congressmen
- Why I Will Vote Socialist
- 6. Boxing
- Evening Accumulating Culture
- Dempsey Vs. Willard
- Jess' Stomach Shouldn't Be Worried
- Ring's Funny Stories Make the Operators Sick
- Lardner Hears Peace Trio Will Officiate at Bout
- After Seeing Jess in the Movies, Ring Wonders How Jack Can Win
- Lardner Won on Allies and Picks Willard Now
- When I Picked Jess to Win I Thought He'd Have Two Eyes to See With
- Dempsey Vs. Carpentier
- Getting to Know Geos
- Ring Will Bear Up No Matter Who Wins
- Ring Gives Dry Statistics on Preparations for Fight
- Ring Uses Strategy to Buzz Frenchman
- Lots of "Trebles" at Carpentier's Ringside
- Everything Goes When You Hit Dempsey's Camp
- Surprise Party for Jack
- Ring Sizes Up Critics from Europe
- How to Overcome the Shock of Battle
- Ring Is Glad He Wasn't in the Ring
- Dempsey Vs. Firpo
- They Ought to Spell It Furpo
- Theys No Doubt Wild Bull Can Hit If Jack Lets Him
- No More Salutes from Firpo to Sid
- Lardner Sees the Wild Bull
- Firpo Takes the Day Off
- Ring Discovers What's Wrong with His Feet
- Ring Gives Dempsey Some Advice
- Lardner in Great Shape for Wordy Battle
- Word from Bernard Shaw
- It Was a FIGHT
- Dempsey Vs.
- Tunney
- Monosyllables to Jack's Jaw
- Best Fight of Tunney's Career Found Dempsey at His Worst
- 7. Noble Experiment
- 1919
- Prohibition Blues
- Some Recipes with Kicks
- Ounce of Prevention
- Benefits of Prohibition
- Oh, Shoot!
- 8. America's Cup And Other Sports
- Ring Can't Stand the Excitement of Yacht Racing
- Yachts Sail Like a Snail with Paralysis
- Closest Race We've Slept Through Yet
- Race Is Between a Snail and a Hearse
- Too Slow to Give a Kick
- Learn to Play Lip Golf
- Ring Reviews His Golf Season
- Perfect Day at Saratoga
- Tips on Horses
- Ring Discovers Polo
- How to Stork Big Game
- How Winners Quit Winners
- Why It's Called a Dog's Life
- Ring's Sensitive Nature Recoils at Hockey
- With Rod and Gun
- 9. Family Life
- Family Poems
- To the Absent One Again
- To the New One
- To the Latest
- Help Wanted
- Eternal Question
- Exit Madge
- Mysterious Antipathy
- Parting
- Exalted Above His Fellows
- Declaration of Independence
- Welcome to Spring
- Youngest One Breaks In
- Moving to the East
- Why Not a Husbands' Union?
- It's a Good Thing Birthdays Don't Come Oftener
- Got a Radio in Your Home?
- Ring Loves His New Radio
- Ring's Long Island Estate Opens to Visitors
- Ring's Water Bill Is $1,643
- and Nobody Drinks It
- Latest Dope from Great Neck
- Ring Confused with Thunder Shower by Radio Fans
- Carpenter's Concert Mars Ring's Speech
- 10. On Journalism
- Journalism Poems
- Monday
- Come On, You Roseate Day
- West Town Storm
- This Afternoon
- To the Man Higher Up
- First Aid
- Valentines
- Plea for Mercy
- Another Plea for Mercy
- Office Secrets
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Conquering a Bad Habit
- Ring Wants a Day Off
- Voice of the People
- Mister Toastmaster and Gentlemen
- On the Scarcity of Paper for Newspapers
- New System for Running Newspapers
- Going Back to Work
- 11. People, Places, And Pieces Of Ring's Mind
- Fifteen Cents Worth
- Starring in the Movies with Billie Burke
- Marry a Man or Caddy for Him
- Keep the Reform Fires Burning
- Automatic Writing
- Some Cigars Would Cure Any Smoker
- Have a Spelling Bee of Your Own
- Try Love Letters on Your Creditors
- Ring Observes the Miami Mermaids
- Ring Discloses His Beauty Secrets
- If You Ain't in the Monday Opera Club, You Don't Belong
- Ring Denies He Owes Chicago $50
- Cordial Greeting from Pola
- Swimming the Transit Channels
- Christmas Card
- From a Bottle Found in the Ocean
- With Rope and Gum
- 12. Parodies And Reviews
- Cubist Baseball
- Spoon
- Rigoletto
- Lilac Time
- Mary MacLane and Her Passionate Male Quartette
- Madam Butterfly Was Some Insect
- Cinderella
- Ring Tells the Story of Snow White
- Dog's Tale
- Fifteen Rounds with Shakespeare and Tunney
- Your Broadway, Beau, and You Can Have It
- Heavy Da-Dee-Dough Boys
- Lyricists Strike Pay Dirt
- We're All Sisters Under the Hide of Me
- 13. Buried Treasure And Night Letters
- Buried Treasure
- Night Letters.