You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner Chicago Cubs discs are encased under a

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"Not often in American sports books does one find a writer whose work rises so far above the commonplace that it aspires to the realms of literature

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You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner Chicago Cubs discs are encased under aIn the early decades of the twentieth century, newspaperman and humorist Ring Lardner (18851933) made America laugh with his hilarious depictions of odd characters in the sporting world, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. His first great success was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slyly revealing the letter writer as a crude, conceited, semiliterate, self deceiving boob. The letters, created while