Charles Einstein (1926–2007)
Auteur de The Fireside Book of Baseball
A propos de l'auteur
Charles Einstein has been a journalist, novelist, editor, and screenwriter. A lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America and a ranking historian of the game
Œuvres de Charles Einstein
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Directeur de publication — 102 exemplaires
A Flag for San Francisco: The Stormy Honeymoon of a Proud City and a Divorced Baseball Team (1962) 18 exemplaires
How to Coach, Manage, and Play Little League Baseball; A Commonsense Instructional Manual. (1986) 6 exemplaires
The Second Fireside Book Of Baseball 5 exemplaires
The New Deal [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Willie Mays 1 exemplaire
4. How to coach, Manage and Play Little League Baseball A commonsense Insructional Manual (1968) 1 exemplaire
How to coach, manage, and play Little League baseball;: A commonsense instructional manual 1 exemplaire
Willy Mays: Coast-to-Coast Giant 1 exemplaire
How to Coach, Manage and Play Little League Baseball 1 exemplaire
_(7) OLDIES - The Fireside Book of Baseball 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Étiqueté
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- Date de naissance
- 1926-08-02
- Date de décès
- 2007-03-07
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Michigan City, Indiana, USA
- Courte biographie
- Married to Corrine Einstein, with two sons, David and Jeffrey, and one daughter, Laurie.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 10
- Membres
- 544
- Popularité
- #45,827
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 30
- Favoris
- 1
So, in keeping with the pulp fiction genre, we have lots of floozies sleeping around (it's manly to sleep around, but women who do the same are, by definition, floozies), a deranged murderer with weird fetishes and so forth. There's also lots of nerd details about the workings of the press back some 60 years ago when people didn't have computers or cell phones, just typewriters and the need to hunt up a public phone when necessary. The nerd details got a bit much at times, but overall, this was fairly well written. I think in terms of pulp per se, it deserves to be 4*s, but since we kind of have to have a one-size-fits-all grading system, and because this isn't exactly Dickens, it has no chance to be better than 3*s.
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