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...Doubleday; 275 pages...
...Abner Doubleday, who, legend has it, invented baseball about 140 years ago, would probably have been proud. Last week the mustachioed Union general's great-great-grandnephew Nelson Doubleday, president of one of the U.S.'s biggest book publishers, completed a family sporting circle by leading a syndicate that bid successfully to purchase the National League's last-place New York Mets for $21.1 million. Said Nelson in the new owners' first hot-stove-league pronouncement: "Running a baseball team is like selling a book. If you put a good team on the field, the fans...
...time and geography, Cope, Idaho, is about as far as you can get from Lincolnian Washington or Edwardian Ireland. But The Noble Enemy (Doubleday; 384 pages; $12.50), set in that no-horse town, is also about death, deceit, love and survival. Charles Fox's novel adds a haunting, imaginative denouement to a news story from the Rockies in the 1960s...
...doorman or a maid or something--someone to set off the shrieking and flyings ashtrays. That, or a tauter script. After the play's rambling dialogues, its climactic scene in which Scooper leaves his blind mother talking to a wheelchair while he and Dierdre run off (to Doubleday?) leaves you cold...
...Birth of the Messiah by Raymond E. Brown (Doubleday, 1977). A top Catholic New Testament expert's close analysis of the story of Jesus' birth in Matthew and Luke, with some surprises, e.g., he doubts Jesus was born in Bethlehem...