Bib Ballads

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Ring Lardner is an average father when his first baby is born, filled with amazement and all of the predictable reactions as he observes his young son grows up. He scribbled a book of 29 short verses on different aspects of parenthood.

Ringgold Wilmer “Ring” Lardner was a US sports columnist and a writer of short fiction known highly for his humorous works of sports, marriage, and the stage. He was a colleague of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald, each one of whom stated high regard for Ring’s works.

He began his literary career as a sports columnist, seeking for a job with the newspaper South Bend Tribune in his teens. Then, he worked with the competitor South Bend Times, the first of several career shifts. He thereafter went to Chicago, where he worked with the Inter-Ocean, although in just a year, he stopped working for the Chicago Examiner, and later for the Tribune. The next two years, he was in St. Louis, drafting the comical baseball column Pullman Pastimes for Taylor Spink and the Sporting News. Many of these writings was the reference for his text You Know Me Al. He also worked with the Boston American.

He afterward went back to the Chicago Tribune, which turned out to be the home newspaper for his collective column In the Wake of the News begun by Hugh Keough. The column was seen in beyond 100 periodicals, and is still printed in the Tribune. Lardner’s Tribune and syndicated writing was not completely all about sports: his messages from/close to The Great War front were compiled in the book My Four Weeks in France, and his deeply engaging reportage of the 1920 Democratic Convention that led to Ring earning 0.5 votes on the 23rd ballot.
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