Ring Lardner’s True Love: Baseball

‘Frank Chance’s Diamond’ showcases the short-story author’s colorful writings on baseball in the early 20th century.

"Frank Chance's Diamond: The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner," edited by Ron Rapoport.

Ring Lardner is best known today for his short stories. Widely admired, he influenced authors as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, John O’Hara, and J.D. Salinger. He is less remembered for his work as a reporter. His sports coverage is almost forgotten today.

“Frank Chance’s Diamond: The Baseball Journalism of Ring Lardner,” edited by Ron Rapoport, redresses that. It is a compilation of Lardner’s work as a sports reporter and baseball-focused newspaper columnist.