Robert Mayer, Author . Houghton Mifflin $18 (336p) ISBN 978-0-618-32961-8
Mayer plays into the baseball book clichés, from a childhood spent hitting "spaldeens" with broomsticks in the Bronx streets and wolfing down Nathan's hot dogs in Coney Island to his eternal lament at the Brooklyn Dodgers' move...
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Robert Mayer, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-385-19760-1
Herbert Feeney is a nuclear research scientist with two obsessive desiresto compensate the world for his father's contribution to the discovery of nuclear arms, and to wreak vengeance on a colleague who ""stole'' his ex-wife. Along the way, he...
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Robert Mayer, Author Viking Books $19.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-670-81079-6
A miscarriage of justice, in Mayer's unconvincing view, occurred in the Oklahoma town of Ada when two young men, Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot, were accused of the 1984 rape and murder of Denice Haraway, a newly married 24-year-old grocery clerk, for
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Robert Mayer, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-525-24776-0
In this satirical debunking of the so-called Camelot presidency, John F. Kennedy, whose purported beyond-the-grave reminiscences are the substance of the text, emerges as a cynical, sex-obsessed egomaniac who took the American people for a ride. JFK
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Robert Mayer, Author, R Mayer, Author Delta $19 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-30926-4
This wonderful, nostalgic memoir traces the events of Mayer's ( The Dreams of Ada ) life and how baseball has been such an intrinsic part of it. Readers re-discover life in a more innocent era, when as a boy he passed time with the wonderful games...
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