John Lardner (1913-60), the eldest son of legendary American humorist Ring Lardner, was a frequent and much-honored contributor to the New Yorker, True, and Sport magazines and wrote three books. His work has been collected by editor John Schulian in The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting (Nebraska, 2010). Alex Belth is the author of Stepping Up: The Story of All-Star Curt Flood and His Fight for Baseball Players' Rights.
I. The Unready
II. Westward (Censored) Ho!
III. Convoy
IV. All Ashore
V. The Shirtsleeve Baedeker
VI. The Last Bastion
VII. MacArthur and MacArthuriana
VIII. Road Company
IX. Darwin
X. Japs, Mostly Dead
XI. The Planes We Fight With
XII. Dakota in the Red Dust
XIII. As the Dutchman Flies
XIV. City Life
XV. Log of the Firecracker
XVI. Port of Bombs and Butterflies
XVII. Between Zeros
XVIII. Seven Deadly Young Men
XIX. Coral Sea
XX. Diggers at Work
XXI. Behind the Lines
XXII. The Tasman Bumps
XXIII. Homeward: The Odd Pace
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