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Bill Giles Book May Not Even Exist
Last week, I noted a discussion of Phillies owner Bill Giles’ book, Pouring Six Beers at a Time, which itself noted that parts of the book may have been not so much accurate. But, whatever. It’s a memoir. Do you know how many baseball memoirs have errors in them? Is there a portion higher than 100 percent? An alert reader passed along this review by Jim McCaffrey of The Bulletin from earlier this year. It sums up the book pretty well: Entertaining, but lacking in detail about interesting characters Giles knew. One such man is Roy Hofheinz, who helped broker the deal for baseball in Houston. And here’s what Giles’ book says about Hofheinz:
Factual errors, Wikipedia thievery… looks like Giles’ memoir explains the Phillies quite well. Giles’ Book Gives Insights On Phillies’ Failures [The Bulletin] |
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just go to fucking church where you belong and stop advertising Bill Giles’ book.
Similar to the situation with James Frey. Dude released a few pages of a new book on his website, and the first paragraph is nearly word-for-word lifted out of the Los Angeles entry on Wikipedia.
Smooth move, following fabrication up with straight plagiarism.
the guy that wrote it was my teacher in college, i’m pretty sure he was constantly working on it.
“Factual errors” and “thievery” are basically what Wikipedia is. Apparently if you can trust Wikipedia, Al Roker was God at some point in the recent past.