Charles Einstein (1926–2007)
Auteur van The Fireside Book of Baseball
Over de 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
Werken van Charles Einstein
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Redacteur — 104 exemplaren
A Flag for San Francisco: The Stormy Honeymoon of a Proud City and a Divorced Baseball Team (1962) 18 exemplaren
How to Coach, Manage, and Play Little League Baseball; A Commonsense Instructional Manual. (1986) 6 exemplaren
The Second Fireside Book Of Baseball 5 exemplaren
The New Deal [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
Willie Mays 1 exemplaar
4. How to coach, Manage and Play Little League Baseball A commonsense Insructional Manual (1968) 1 exemplaar
How to coach, manage, and play Little League baseball;: A commonsense instructional manual 1 exemplaar
Willy Mays: Coast-to-Coast Giant 1 exemplaar
_(7) OLDIES - The Fireside Book of Baseball 1 exemplaar
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Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Medewerker — 29 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1926-08-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2007-03-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Michigan City, Indiana, USA
- Korte biografie
- Married to Corrine Einstein, with two sons, David and Jeffrey, and one daughter, Laurie.
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 32
- Ook door
- 10
- Leden
- 548
- Populariteit
- #45,524
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 30
- Favoriet
- 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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