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Sharing stories and sketches by beloved sports columnist Ring Lardner, this book is guaranteed to bring a laugh to readers as they follow Ring through the adventures of everyday life.In a collection of untold stories and sketches, Ring Lardner showcases his wit and wry sense of irony in every piece. A sportswriter by trade, Lardner was widely known for his superb ear for the regional peculiarities of speech and notoriously loved for his humor. A must for anyone interested in classic American fiction, Some Champions shares many of Lardner’s classic tales focused on the quirks and pathos of human beings, including their daily turmoils and small triumphs.

This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner’s best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as “Alibi Ike,” “Some Like Them Cold,” and “Guillible’s Travels.”For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The publication of You Know Me Al brought instant fame to RingLardner (1885-1933), one of the great American humorists of this century.Considered the satirist's greatest work, the book is a collection of lettersfrom one Jack Keefe, a baseball "busher," to his longtime friend,Al Blanchard, in their midwestern hometown.The voice of Jack Keefe perfectly echoes the vernacular of the baseballplayers Lardner had covered for years as a newspaper reporter followingthe exploits of Chicago's Cubs and White Sox. Readers instantly recognizedin Jack the full range of human foibles. This universality accounts forthe enduring appeal of You Know Me Al."Ring Lardner is the idol of professional humorists and of plentyof other people, too."-- E. B. White"His work is a contribution of genuine and permanent value to thenational literature."-- H. L. Mencken"Mr. Lardner . . . lets Jack Keefe the baseball player cut out hisown outline until the figure of the foolish, boastful, innocent athletelives with us."-- Virginia Woolf

Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country’s best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner’s trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day.Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner’s journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era-from Jack Dempsey’s fights to the World Series and even an America’s Cup-he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life.The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who remains contemporary to subsequent generations.