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Tag Archives: Ring Lardner
Yankee Double-Headline In NYT
From our Pinstripe Compare ‘n’ Contrast desk Call it Yankee tradition vs. Yankee contrition. First, the sad news, from Sunday’s New York Times: Bob Turley, Pitcher With a Blazing Fastball, Dies at 82 Bob Turley, a Cy Young-winning, right-handed pitcher … Continue reading
Damon Runyon Watch: Guys and Dogs
The hardworking staff has long admired early 20th century journalist/short story writer Damon Runyon (although not as much as contemporary journalist/short story writer Ring Lardner, whose The Young Immigrunts is quite possibly the funniest piece we’ve ever read). But back to … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (The Young Immigrunts Edition)
The Globe/Herald division of labor: One has facts, the other has opinions. See IGTLTDT for details. (Special Ring Lardner bonus included!)
Great American Sportswriter Lists Lack Heinz Sight
Two recent pieces (not to be confused with Reese’s Pieces) about American sportswriters have excluded one name from the roll call of the best at their craft: W.C. Heinz, Heavyweight Champion of the Word as Jeff MacGregor dubbed him in a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Brownsville Bum, Damon Runyon, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Heavyweight Champion of the Word, Jeff MacGregor, Jim Murray, Jimmy Breslin, Last King of the Sports Page, New York Times, Nicholas Dawidoff, Once They Heard the Cheers, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Roger Angell, Sports Illustrated, The Professional, W.C. Heinz, Wall Street Journal
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Brown/Warren Ceasefire Edition)
Now that the goo-goos have stopped cooing for a moment about the Super PAC disarmament pact between likely U.S. Senate rivals Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, it’s time for the real world to weigh in – specifically free speech advocates … Continue reading
A World’s Serious (2011 Edition)
Well that was one for the ages, no? The hardworking staff will leave the play-by-play of the St. Louis Cardinals’ knee-buckling victory in Game 6 of the World Series to others and go straight to the color commentary: • Twice Fox … Continue reading
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Tagged A World's Serious, AP, Fox, Jack Buck, Joe Buck, Mike Fitzpatrick, Ring Lardner, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers
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WSJ’s Jason Gay Gets All Squirrely
The always-readable Jason Gay broke this news in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: LeTR fROm thE RaLLy SQuiRRel AtTornEY DEaR PEEpLE of SAiNT LOuIs, My NaMe is RiChaRD FLuFFYTAIL, III, EsQ. I am A SQuiRReL AttornEY with the FiRm of ACoRN, … Continue reading
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Tagged Got Squirrel?, Jason Gay, Rally Squirrel, Ring Lardner, St. Louis Cardinals, Stan Musial, Wall Street Journal
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The Case Against E-Readers
The hardworking staff owns a Kindle and an iPad, so we’re not saying ebooks have no place in the literary world. It’s just that ebooks don’t replace the real thing. From the Weekend Wall Street Journal: What an E-Reader Can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged e-readers, eBay, New Republic, Own Your Own Home, Ring Lardner, Shill of the Hunt, Thrill of the Hunt, Wall Street Journal
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Free Books!
Good news! The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider just discovered (D’oh!) archive.org, “a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages,” not to mention a stash of 1.8 … Continue reading
A World’s Serious
The great Ring Lardner‘s lede for his 1920 gem, “A World’s Serious:” ADVANCE NOTICE Sept. 30. – All though they have been world serious practally every yr. for the last 20 yrs. this next world serious which is supposed to … Continue reading
