Place: The Offices of The Saturday Evening Post
Ring Lardner’s most famous story, Alabi Ike is published. Today we print the first part of the story. The YouTube is a radio show. This show from 1937 was based upon the whole thing.
Radio version of the story.
His right name was Frank X. Farrell, and I guess the X stood for "Excuse me." Because he never pulled a play, good or bad, on or off the field, without apologizin' for it.
"Alibi Ike" was the name Carey wished on him the first day he reported down South. O' course we all cut out the "Alibi" part of it right away for the fear he would overhear it and bust somebody. But we called him "Ike" right to his face and the rest of it was understood by everybody on the club except Ike himself.
