Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was born in Niles, Michigan and was a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune and the South Bend Times. He is considered by many to be among the greatest American authors of the early twentieth century.
Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack Keefe’s l...[SEE MORE]