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You know Me Al: A Busher's Letters (1916)

af Ring Lardner

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One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox. Set in pre-World War I, the book is comprised of letters that Keefe sends to his "old pal" Al. Through the letters, the self-centered Keefe reveals his regular struggles to maintain his position in the big leagues as well as his personal life and juggle his financial difficulties. Nevertheless, the tales from on and off the field as he travels with the team are full of wit, insight, and entertainment. They include Keefe's encounters with baseball legends such as Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte. In this edition of the book, which includes a foreword by acclaimed writer John Thorn, readers can relive all of the glory of this historic era of baseball through the eyes of one of Ring Lardner's most comical characters, a century after his creation! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports--books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.… (mere)
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    Ring Lardner's You know me Al: The comic strip adventures of Jack Keefe (A Harvest book) af Ring Lardner (bluepiano)
    bluepiano: Collection of forgotten comic strips featuring Jack Keefe that were written by Lardner.
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Not much here. One sided exchange of letters from a nineteen-teens ballplayer.

I was ready to be done with him by the end, I hope he did make the trip overseas. and don't much care if he came back to baby Al. ( )
  kcshankd | Dec 18, 2023 |
FROM AMAZON: You Know Me, Al is a classic of baseball, the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's great characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious.
Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America, a time before the "live" ball, a time filled with names like Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte, this is not a simple period piece. It is about competition, about the ability to reason, and most of all it is about being human.
  Gmomaj | Jan 22, 2023 |
It is little wonder why this book was extraordinarily popular in the first half of the last century (it was first published in 1914). It is a very funny book about baseball; or it is a book about a blowhard baseball player who is too full of ego and too dim to see how outrageously inappropriate and silly his actions are.

Written as a series of letters to his lifelong friend, Al, the book covers two years of Jack Keefe's life as a new White Sox pitcher, who lacks social skills (and spelling skills!) but who seems to fall in love with every young chippie he meets. Hotheaded and opinionated, Jack routinely storms into Mr. Comiskey's office to demand more money, earning him (fairly early on) a bust back down to the bush leagues. But Jack, artless as he is, has talent, and is soon back under contract to Comiskey. Jack always comes out last, while boasting to Al how he's gotten the best of every deal, and this book lasts just long enough to be funny without being exasperating.

Recommend to fans of early 20th century fiction -- and/ or baseball.
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  FinallyJones | Nov 17, 2021 |
As the previous reviewer points out, You Know Me Al is set in the early years of major league baseball, so it was enjoyable reading about that era of train travel, spit balls, etc. Ring Lardner was an inspiration for J.D. Salinger, and you can hear some of Lardner's voice in Salinger's writings. ( )
1 stem jklavanian | Jun 1, 2016 |
Ring Lardner's novel,YOU KNOW ME AL, is a recognized classic, a tongue-in-cheek look at professional baseball in the early 20th century. First published nearly a hundred years ago, I don't think Lardner's book has ever been out of print. It's that good and still that relevant when it comes to baseball: i.e. a dumb jock is still a dumb jock. The novel is comprised of letters from Jack Keefe to his pal, Al Blanchard, back in Bedford, Indiana. Keefe is a former "bush-leaguer," who has made it to the bigs as a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. He is a semi-literate, blustering braggart who somehow manages to become a mostly sympathetic character in the course of his many letters about his ups and downs as a pitcher, his run-ins with management (Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox; and managers Callahan and Gleason), and his love-life adventures, an initially rocky marriage and fatherhood. A boorish boob/rube in many ways, Jack further endears himself to readers in his role as a doting new father of "little Al."

When he was writing the book, Lardner was a sports writer for newspapers, so he was very familiar with baseball's vernacular as well as all the best players of the time, many of whom are used in his narrative. And this was the era of Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Walter Johnson and many other now legendary giants of the game. A hundred years later these figures turn this humorous book into a quasi-history of a sort.

While reading YOU KNOW ME AL, I often thought of Mark Harris's baseball tetralogy (THE SOUTHPAW; BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY; TICKET FOR A SEAMSTITCH; and IT LOOKED LIKE FOREVER), because Lardner's work is such an obvious influence on that of Harris.

I liked this book very much and will recommend it highly to baseball fans and historians. ( )
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One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox. Set in pre-World War I, the book is comprised of letters that Keefe sends to his "old pal" Al. Through the letters, the self-centered Keefe reveals his regular struggles to maintain his position in the big leagues as well as his personal life and juggle his financial difficulties. Nevertheless, the tales from on and off the field as he travels with the team are full of wit, insight, and entertainment. They include Keefe's encounters with baseball legends such as Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte. In this edition of the book, which includes a foreword by acclaimed writer John Thorn, readers can relive all of the glory of this historic era of baseball through the eyes of one of Ring Lardner's most comical characters, a century after his creation! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports--books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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