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...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...
...main plot line The Immigrants much resembles such other novels spanning the '20s as John Dos Passos's The Big Money, or F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Man is broke, but dreams of success. Man works hard, makes lots of money, seeks beautiful, high-status wife. Man discovers that success he finally gains leaves him, in the end, unfulfilled and unloved. The large balance in his bank account cannot ensure his emotional well-being...
Lardner, in short, was a newspaper man with all the mythical implications the term implies--he smoked heavily, drank constantly and loved sitting in the press box at baseball games. And it seems appropriate that Yardley should end Ring with Fitzgerald's epitaph...
...World Series of 1919 appears to be as much of a dissapointment to his biographer as it was for Lardner. Yardley writes extensively of the disillusionment the scandalous affair caused throughout the country, and of the effect the fixed Series had on Lardner's good friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. Yardley speculates that the 1919 Series, which gamblers paid the favored White Sox to throw, was a topic that the two literary figures must have discussed together. Even more, he says, Ring's feelings must have inspired Fitzgerald to use that series "As yet another symbol of corruption in a novel...
...chronic heavy drinking. He died in 1933, we are told, feeling as though he had not reached his full potential: "When he saw what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support his family...