Charles Einstein (1926–2007)
Forfatter af The Fireside Book of Baseball
Om forfatteren
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
Værker af Charles Einstein
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Redaktør — 102 eksemplarer
A Flag for San Francisco: The Stormy Honeymoon of a Proud City and a Divorced Baseball Team (1962) 18 eksemplarer
How to Coach, Manage, and Play Little League Baseball; A Commonsense Instructional Manual. (1986) 6 eksemplarer
The Second Fireside Book Of Baseball 5 eksemplarer
The New Deal [short fiction] 2 eksemplarer
Willie Mays 1 eksemplar
4. How to coach, Manage and Play Little League Baseball A commonsense Insructional Manual (1968) 1 eksemplar
How to coach, manage, and play Little League baseball;: A commonsense instructional manual 1 eksemplar
Willy Mays: Coast-to-Coast Giant 1 eksemplar
_(7) OLDIES - The Fireside Book of Baseball 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Alfred Hitchcock præsenterer Knuder på bødlens reb : 12 udvalgte kriminalnoveller (1962) — Bidragyder — 143 eksemplarer
Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1926-08-02
- Dødsdag
- 2007-03-07
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Dødssted
- Michigan City, Indiana, USA
- Kort biografi
- Married to Corrine Einstein, with two sons, David and Jeffrey, and one daughter, Laurie.
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- Værker
- 32
- Also by
- 10
- Medlemmer
- 544
- Popularitet
- #45,827
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 10
- ISBN
- 30
- Udvalgt
- 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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