Ring Lardner Tonight: "You Know Me Al" II, Part 8 -- Rain in Philly; arrival in D.C.

"They was a letter here from Violet and it pretty near made me feel like crying. I wish they was two of me so both them girls could be happy."

-- Jack, in Philadelphia (September 19)

We have two letters tonight: one from Philadelphia, chronicling a rain day, and then -- after a double header against the "Athaletics" -- there's one from Washington, D.C., on a day when Jack is to match up against . . . Walter Johnson! -- Ken


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YOU KNOW ME AL: Our story to date

John Lardner's Introduction (1958): Part 1 and Part 2
Chapter I: A Busher's Letters Home --
Part 1, Preface and Jack's letters of Sept. 6 and Dec. 14 and 16
Part 2, The busher reaches the bigs -- March 2, 7, 9, and 16
Part 3: Countdown to Opening Day -- March 26 and April 1, 4, 7, and 10
Part 4: The busher makes his big-league debut -- April 11 and 15
Part 5: A major development for Jack -- April 19, 25, and 29
Chapter II: The Busher Comes Back
Part 1, The busher comes back -- May 13 and 20
Part 2, Big news for Al -- July 20
Part 3, A surprise for Jack -- August 16 (plus "The real Charles Comiskey")
Part 4, Back in the bigs -- August 27
Part 5, Big doings in Detroit -- September 6
Part 6, "Boston is some town, Al" -- September 12
Part 7, Bedford, IN, meets NY, NY -- September 16

THURBER TONIGHT (including BENCHLEY, BOB AND RAY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, PERELMAN, JEAN SHEPHERD, and E. B. WHITE TONIGHT): Check out the series to date

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