{"product_id":"ring-around-the-bases-the-complete-baseball-stories-of-ring-lardner-9781570035319","title":"Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRing Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ring Lardner. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781570035319.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential collection of baseball fiction by the master of the form\n\nMore than any other writer in the twentieth century, Ring Lardner was identified with baseball. His years as a newspaper reporter in Chicago covering the Cubs and White Sox gave him inside knowledge of the sport and how it reflected the American experience. Lardners baseball short stories remain the core of his career and the basis of his enduring reputation.\n\nWith his unerring eye for detail and his sense of the absurd, Lardner ranged over the entire game. He probed not only the nature of the game but also the lives of the men who played it. His famous portraits, such as those in \"Alibi Ike\" and \"My Roomy,\" express his complex responses to baseball and the people associated with it. Historically accurate and richly textured, Ring Around the Bases reveals the master at the height of his craft and celebrates the American pastime. The collection is the ultimate lineup in baseball fiction.\n\nRing Around the Bases was originally published by Charles Scribners Sons in 1992 in cloth. This new paperback edition includes an additional uncollected short story. Located after the publication of the cloth edition, \"The Courtship of T. Dorgan\" truly makes this volume of thirty-four stories the complete Lardner baseball collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256763670581,"sku":"ByrdShop_1570035318","price":26.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781570035319_03fa08bf-74b8-4418-a703-138dc251d945.jpg?v=1779962024","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ring-around-the-bases-the-complete-baseball-stories-of-ring-lardner-9781570035319","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}