<p>Jack Keefe is a talented brash and conceited young bush-league pitcher. Impervious to both advice and sarcasm Keefe rises to the heights but his inability to learn from his mistakes might just be his undoing. Told through a series of letters written from Keefe to his friend Al this baseball classic maintains a balance between the funny and the moving the pathetic and the glorious.</p> <p>Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America a time before the “live” ball a time filled with names like Ty Cobb Charles Comiskey Walter Johnson and Eddie Cicotte this is not a simple period piece. It is about competition about the ability to reason and most of all it is about being human. First published in 1914 <em>You Know Me Al</em> tells us as much about ourselves today as it did nearly a hundred years ago.</p>