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Hard Ball: A Season in the Projects (Putnam; 317 pages; $22.95) tells the true story of an enterprise so hopeless and ridiculous that it bursts through the limits of ordinary absurdity and emerges, grinning like a fool, on the other side. A bunch of white yuppies, as Coyle tells it, decide to help out with a Little League that's getting started in darkest Cabrini-Green. Cabrini is a 70-acre failed social experiment known, in understated terms, as the worst low-rent development in the U.S. From its high-rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific...
...note vibrates, unexpectedly, in memoirs by two veteran newspaper columnists, Pete Hamill (A Drinking Life; Little, Brown; 265 pages; $21.95) and Art Buchwald (Leaving Home; Putnam; 254 pages; $22.95). Both men record bruisingly uncushioned childhoods shadowed by their families' bleak vulnerability in the Depression -- an era that still accounts for more residual haunted notes than Americans realize. Both men are New Yorkers. Buchwald is deadpan-Jewish-funny, with an underlayer of almost quizzical pain; Hamill is Irish saloon-polemical, with an exuberance undermined by a taste for boozy lyricism, machismo and occasional self-pity...
Dunster or Mather Putnam Apt., 2 Mt. Auburn...
Major contributors to the fund thus far include Harvard Realty, the Harvard Rotary Club and Putnam Furniture, which donated both money and beds. Private donations of $50 to $100 comprise a large percentage of thefunds raised, Clifford said...
Sullivan, who lives in Mid-Cambridge on Putnam Ave., says he hopes to bring consensus to a divided city council...