You Know Me Al

By Lardner, Ring W.

Book Id: WPLBN0000624416
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	You Know Me Al
Author:	Lardner, Ring W.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. A Busher?s Letters Home Terre Haute, Indiana, September 6. FRIEND AL: Well, Al old pal I suppose you seen in the paper where I been sold to the White Sox. Believe me Al it comes as a surprise to me and I bet it did to all you good old pals down home. You could of knocked me over with a feather when the old man come up to me and says Jack I've sold you to the Chicago Americans. I didn?t have no idea that anything like that was coming off. For five minutes I was just dum and couldn't say a word. He says We aren't getting what you are worth but I want you to go up to that big league and show those birds that there is a Central League on the map. He says Go and pitch the ball you been pitching down here and there won?t be nothing to it. He says All you need is the nerve and Walsh or no one else won?t have nothing on you. So I says I would do the best I could and I thanked him for the treatment I got in Terre Haute. They always was good to me here and though I did more than my share I always felt that my work was appresiated. We are finishing second and I done most of it. I can?t help but be proud of my first year?s record in professional baseball and you know I am not boasting when I say that Al.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: You Know Me Al, 1 -- Ring Lardner, 1 -- Chapter I. A Busher's Letters Home, 1 -- Chapter II. The Busher Comes Back, 12 -- Chapter III. The Busher's Honeymoon, 25 -- Chapter IV. A New Busher Breaks In, 37 -- Chapter V. The Busher's Kid, 50 -- Chapter VI. The Busher Beats It Hence, 62