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Charles Einstein (1926–2007)

Forfatter af The Fireside Book of Baseball

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

Associated Works

Stories to Stay Awake By (1971) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
Stories To Stay Awake By [abridged] (1971) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
Rolling Gravestones (1971) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Garden of innocents (1972) 3 eksemplarer
Saturn, May 1957 (Vol. 1 ∙ No. 2) (1957) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Årstid for kranier (1974) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver1 eksemplar
Dødens dagbog (1974) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver1 eksemplar

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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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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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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 anden anmeldelse | 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.… (mere)
 
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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 andre anmeldelser | Jun 1, 2016 |

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Casey Robinson Screenwriter
Reggie Jackson Introduction
Charles Dexter Contributor
P. G. Wodehouse Contributor
Andrew Foster Contributor
Dick Young Contributor
Rolfe Humphries Contributor
Shirley Povich Contributor
James R. Harrison Contributor
John Lardner Contributor
Casey Stengel Contributor
Grantland Rice Contributor
Stanton Delaplane Contributor
Vin Scully Contributor
Ernest L. Thayer Contributor
Ring W. Lardner Contributor
Hal Totten Contributor
Gabby Hartnett Contributor
Rudy York Contributor
Frankie F. Frisch Contributor
Don Hoak Contributor
James Whyte Davis Contributor
Arthur Baer Contributor
George E. Phair Contributor
Carl Hubbell Contributor
Richard Donovan Contributor
Gerald Holland Contributor
George Ellard Contributor
John Drebinger Contributor
James P. Dawson Contributor
Bill Corum Contributor
Fred W. Thayer Contributor
Mark Twain Contributor
Myron Cope Contributor
Kenneth Patchen Contributor
Heywood Broun Contributor
Mark Harris Contributor
James T. Farrell Contributor
Jimmy Breslin Contributor
Ken Smith Composer
Roger Angell Contributor
Marianne Moore Contributor
Ogden Nash Contributor
Harry Golden Contributor
H. L. Mencken Contributor
Sherwood Anderson Contributor
Thomas Wolfe Contributor
Jacques Barzun Contributor
Shirley Jackson Contributor
James Thurber Contributor
John Updike Contributor
Philip Roth Contributor
A. E. Hotchner Contributor
Paul Fisher Contributor
Dave Anderson Contributor
Furman Bisher Contributor
Ed Linn Contributor
John P. Carmichael Contributor
Frank G. Menke Contributor
Bob Feller Contributor
Arnold Hano Contributor
Bob Considine Contributor
Red Smith Contributor
W. C. Heinz Contributor
Franklin P. Adams Contributor
Ann Landers Contributor
Al Stump Contributor
Jackie Robinson Contributor
Ted Williams Introduction

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Værker
32
Also by
10
Medlemmer
544
Popularitet
#45,827
Vurdering
3.8
Anmeldelser
10
ISBN
30
Udvalgt
1

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