August 06, 2007
Bill Giles Book May Not Even Exist
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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:
Giles' one-paragraph biography of Hofheinz is quite literally lifted right out of Wikipedia.
Factual errors, Wikipedia thievery... looks like Giles' memoir explains the Phillies quite well.
Giles' Book Gives Insights On Phillies' Failures [The Bulletin]
Friday: Phillies Owner Just Like Every Other Memoirist
Posted by D-Mac on August 6, 2007 11:52 AM
Posted to Bill Giles
, Phillies
, Wikipedia
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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.
Posted by: mike at August 6, 2007 03:23 PM
the guy that wrote it was my teacher in college, i'm pretty sure he was constantly working on it.
Posted by: chris at August 7, 2007 12:52 AM
"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.
Posted by: Toby at August 7, 2007 04:41 PM
just go to fucking church where you belong and stop advertising Bill Giles' book.
Posted by: GFC at August 6, 2007 12:53 PM