Word: doubleday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woolery laughs off the idea that the show's rules are too byzantine. "Can you imagine Abner Doubleday trying to sell baseball as a parlor game?" And the answer is no. But then, baseball didn't have to become the national pastime in its first three games...
...shoot a gun but can spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...
...coming weeks three new novels examining the experience of single womanhood are due, and none will provide much defense against allegations that life as a contemporary 29-to-36-year-old female can lead to occasional confusion or heartache. All these debuts--Kate Christensen's In the Drink (Doubleday; 278 pages; $22.95), Suzanne Finnamore's Otherwise Engaged (Knopf; 209 pages; $22) and Melissa Bank's keen The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Viking; 274 pages; $23.95)--feature heroines who might enjoy Bridget's company but eventually tire of her ninny-ness...
...Mythic figures like Abner Doubleday, Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio give us the chance to think about the positives in America rather than the negatives...
Mythic figures like Abner Doubleday, Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio give us the chance to think about the positives in America rather than the negatives...