Ring Around the Bases The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933) was a native of Niles, Michigan. Like most American writers of his generation, Lardner served his literary apprenticeship on newspapers. In 1905 he joined the South Bend Times in Indiana and reported on social and courthouse events, as well as serving as the drama critic and sports editor. In 1907 Lardner moved to Chicago, where he covered the Cubs and the White Sox for several newspapers including the Tribune, where in 1913 he took over the widely acclaimed column "In the Wake of the News." The following year he published his first work of magazine fiction -- a busher story -- in the Saturday Evening Post Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors. He lives in ColumbiaLardner, Ring is the author of 'Ring Around the Bases The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner' with ISBN 9781570035319 and ISBN 1570035318.