You Know Me, Al

Jack Keefe, one of literatures great characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Selfassured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bushleague pitcher to his notquiteanonymous friend Al, Ring Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious.