Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner Review

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Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner ReviewNobody wrote more good baseball stories than Ring Lardner, nor has anybody written better ones. This book brings them all together in one volume for the first time.
It begins with the "You Know Me Al" stories, consisting of letters from Jack Keefe to his friend Al. More than two-hundred pages are devoted to these, which is a bit of a problem; after the first fifty, Lardner has established that Jack is a blowhard with no spine and isn't very bright, and the theme starts to pall. The stories must have worked much better published individually or in groups of a few.
The other stories are unrelieved successes, however. It would be, I think, going too far to say that Lardner uses baseball as a metaphor for life, but baseball is just the setting that he uses to show us things about his characters, and about human nature.
The writing is superb, and the stories bear out the frequently-made observation about the excellence of Lardner's ear for vernacular American speech.
Very entertaining and highly recommended.Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner Overview

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