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You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters

You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters

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BookID: 52670

Language:English

Adapter:Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933

LoC No.:16015595

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 91.8 (5th grade). Very easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Humorous storiesEpistolary fictionBaseball players -- FictionBaseball stories

Description

"You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters" by Ring Lardner is a collection of stories published in 1916. Written as letters from Jack Keefe, a talented but headstrong pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, to his friend Al back in Indiana, the book captures a boastful, naive ballplayer's adventures in the big leagues circa 1913. Through his barely literate correspondence, Jack reveals his struggles with contract negotiations, romantic entanglements, marriage troubles, and life among real baseball legends—all while remaining hilariously oblivious to how others manipulate him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

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