Willie Mosconi, Author, Stanley Cohen, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-02-587495-4
Readers need not be pool players or even know the rudiments of the game to enjoy this autobiography. Born in 1913, the son of a Philadelphia pool-hall manager, Mosconi made his mark as a child prodigy at age six, then ``retired,'' returning to the...
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Stanley Cohen, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55972-030-4
This conventional and undistinguished history of baseball's Brooklyn-Los Angeles franchise begins with a brief discussion of the teams that preceded the Dodgers, then launches into the story of the squads that played in Flatbush. Cohen ( A Magic...
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Stanley Cohen, Author, Stanley Cohen, Photographer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-15-155096-8
The New York Mets joined the National League in 1962 and for the next seven seasons established themselves as the team of lovable futility. It is no wonder, then, that as the 1969 season dawned, the odds against the Mets winning the pennant were 100
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Stanley Cohen, Author . Carroll & Graf $14 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1258-8
As the title suggests, Cohen (The Man in the Crowd) examines some 100 instances where people sentenced to death were later exonerated, most of them ultimately proven innocent of the crimes for which they were condemned. The capsule profiles of the...
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