The Resume

(March 4, 1901-April 3, 1991)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bridge player
Won 32 North American Bridge Championships
Won the world championship at the Bermuda Bowl (1950)
Popularized the high card point count system
Wrote a syndicated daily bridge column, a weekly column for 'Sports Illustrated' and a monthly column for 'McCall's'
Books included 'Winning Bridge Made Easy' and 'Contract Bridge Complete'
Hosted the TV program 'Championship Bridge with Charles Goren' (1959-64)
Inducted into the American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame (1963)

Why he might be annoying:

He gave up a law career to play bridge full time.
He marketed a line of cocktail napkins with bridge hints printed on them.
When he donated a trophy for a bridge tournament named after him, he bought a second-hand horse racing cup and had the original inscription chiseled off.

Why he might not be annoying:

His bidding system was described as 'simple enough for any beginner and accurate enough for the experts.'
He sold over 10 million bridge books.
After retiring from tournaments for health reasons, he played bridge socially with a group that included George Burns.
He said, 'Bridge is for fun. You should play the game for no other reason. You should not play bridge to make money, to show how smart you are, to show how stupid your partner is, to prove that you are the greatest teacher since Socrates, to show off the latest fad in bidding or to prove any of the several hundred other things that bridge players are so often trying to prove.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Attorney
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 37]
• I am from Philadelphia
• I Attended McGill
• I Died in 1991 (Ranked: 90)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Sports Illustrated
• Look at Me, I'm Playing Cards
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Profiles 31501-31750 (Ranked: 31510)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19910403)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 81.82% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying