CiscoCarlos
02-27-2003, 08:37 PM
http://209.11.144.65/eldritchpress/rl/unomeal.htm
O.K., I concede this won't have wide appeal, but if any of you old-time White Sox philes ever have a few hours, you might want to check out the above, which is the site for an old Ring Lardner book on the 1914 White Sox.
Called "You Know Me, Al," it's a reprint of a novel focusing on a rube from Terra Haute, Indiana who joins the White Sox, chronicling his various setbacks in spring training and the regular season playing on a team featuring Ed Walsh, Bing Podie, Eddie Collins and others.
It's old but has a lot of funny one-liners and very telling portraits of Comiskey (portrayed as cheap), Kid Gleason and the key Sox players of that era.
I read elsewhere it was based on a real Sox rookie pitcher named Butcher Boy Joe Benz, who was a brash, self-deluded fool with an eye for the blondes in the stands.
Lardner wrote it while covering the White Sox for a Chicago newspaper that year and it instantly became his first best seller.
O.K., I concede this won't have wide appeal, but if any of you old-time White Sox philes ever have a few hours, you might want to check out the above, which is the site for an old Ring Lardner book on the 1914 White Sox.
Called "You Know Me, Al," it's a reprint of a novel focusing on a rube from Terra Haute, Indiana who joins the White Sox, chronicling his various setbacks in spring training and the regular season playing on a team featuring Ed Walsh, Bing Podie, Eddie Collins and others.
It's old but has a lot of funny one-liners and very telling portraits of Comiskey (portrayed as cheap), Kid Gleason and the key Sox players of that era.
I read elsewhere it was based on a real Sox rookie pitcher named Butcher Boy Joe Benz, who was a brash, self-deluded fool with an eye for the blondes in the stands.
Lardner wrote it while covering the White Sox for a Chicago newspaper that year and it instantly became his first best seller.