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Charles Einstein (1926–2007)

Auteur de The Fireside Book of Baseball

32+ oeuvres 544 utilisateurs 10 critiques 1 Favoris

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 Fireside Book of Baseball (1956) — Directeur de publication — 130 exemplaires
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Directeur de publication — 102 exemplaires
The Third Fireside Book of Baseball (1968) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
The Second Fireside Book of Baseball (1958) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
The New Baseball Reader (1991) 24 exemplaires
The Day New York Went Dry (1964) 22 exemplaires
While the City Sleeps [1956 film] (1956) — Original book — 14 exemplaires
How to Win at Blackjack (1968) 10 exemplaires
Born to play ball (1709) 8 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Hangman's Dozen (1962) — Contributeur — 143 exemplaires
Stories to Stay Awake By (1971) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
Stories To Stay Awake By [abridged] (1971) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Rolling Gravestones (1971) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Garden of innocents (1972) 3 exemplaires
Saturn, May 1957 (Vol. 1 ∙ No. 2) (1957) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Årstid for kranier (1974) — Auteur, quelques éditions1 exemplaire
Dødens dagbog (1974) — Auteur, quelques éditions1 exemplaire

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Partage des connaissances

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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This is pulp fiction, so clearly not "literature". None the less, it isn't bad. It revolves around a struggle in a news organization between the top department chiefs to succeed in becoming the head honcho, so to speak. So we follow their Machiavellian machinations, which appear to involve a good deal of sleeping around with other people's women, or else catching others doing same (hey, it's pulp fiction). There's an understory, a series of lurid murders, naturally. The news guys figure the person to solve the murders, or at least the first one to break the news of the solution to the world, will win the coveted head-honcho status.

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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Signalé
lgpiper | Jun 21, 2019 |
A collection of writings about baseball, this book includes the Abbot and Costello routine, "Who's on First?"
 
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raizel | 1 autre critique | Oct 27, 2017 |
Oh boy I loved this. It was lots of fun to read. The writing is somewhat stylized -- it reminded me a bit of Mark Harris but I think both authors got it from somewhere else -- somewhere in the history of baseball writing. Marichal is full of funny stories, and he likes to heap praise on Willie Mays and others. The book was written after the 1966 season. He tells detailed stories about some of his games. I totally enjoyed it.

I hate my job! I hate that books like this are being withdrawn & discarded, with a couple of copies left in some hidden place...and a digital scan of the content that we hope is perfect.… (plus d'informations)
 
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franoscar | Jul 14, 2016 |
It's about Willie Mays, my favorite baseball player of all time. What more can I say?
 
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phaas | 2 autres critiques | Jun 1, 2016 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
32
Aussi par
10
Membres
544
Popularité
#45,827
Évaluation
3.8
Critiques
10
ISBN
30
Favoris
1

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