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Tag Archives: Ring Lardner
The 2015 World’s Serious (Serious Second-Guessing Edition)
(Tip o’ the pixel to Ring Lardner’s classic A World’s Serious) Well, that kind of blew for any righteous New York Mets fan, eh? The Junior Pinstripes went Chernobyl for the second straight night, starting with a disastrous top of the … Continue reading
The World’s Serious Just Got Serious
. . . in a seriously bad way, given that the New York Mets went Chernobyl in Game 4. The gruesome details, via Newsday: Nightmare eighth inning leaves Mets with 3-1 deficit in World Series The Mets could see new life. … Continue reading
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Tagged A World's Serious, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Kansas City Royals, New York Mets, Newsday, Ring Lardner, World's Serious
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Leigh Montville Has 20/20 Heinz Sight in WSJ Review
The hardworking staff is a longtime fan of the great W.C. Heinz, and we’re hoping everyone else will catch up with us thanks to the Library of America’s new publication, The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W.C. … Continue reading
NYT’s Jim Brosnan Obit Lacks Heinz-Sight
Jim Brosnan, a baseball-hurler-turned-word-twirler, died last week, as the New York Times noted yesterday. From the estimable Bruce Weber’s obit: Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as a relief … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Bernard Malamud, Bruce Weber, Cincinnati Reds, Death of a Racehorse, Ernest Hemingway, Floyd Patterson, Frank Graham, Fred Lieb, Grantland Rice, Jim Brosnan, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, Jonathan Yardley, Lou Boudreau, Lou Gehrig: Boy of the Sandlots, New York Sun, New York Times, Once They Heard the Cheers, Player-Manager, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Sports Illustrated, The Baseball Story, The Long Season, The Natural, W.C. Heinz, Washington Post, You Know Me Al
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Joseph Epstein Review Of Red Smith Anthology Lacks Heinz Sight
One of the several joys of subscribing to The Weekly Standard is the work of Joseph Epstein, a writer of uncommon sense and sensibility. His piece last week was a review of American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, a Library … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, Death of a Racehorse, Frank Graham, Grantland Rice, Jeff MacGregor, Jimmy Cannon, John Lardner, Joseph Epstein, Library of America, New York Sun, New York Times, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Sports Illustrated, The Weekly Standard, W.C. Heinz
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How To Get A World Series Ring
Friday’s Boston Herald op-ed page featured a piece by Cornelius Chapman that serves as a perfect segue to post-season baseball in Boston. Sports scribe put literary hat in Ring Of all the newspaper reporters ever to tap a typewriter in Boston, only … Continue reading
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Yankees pennant race, Boston Braves, Boston Rustlers, Con Chapman, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Library of America, Ring Lardner, The Boston-American, The Portable Ring Lardner, The Year of the Gerbil, The Young Immigrunts, Virginia Woolf
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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
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