Random Notes

■ Sports Books: Tom Fitzpatrick assays Durocher on and off the field in Leo the Lip (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Bush League is a history of minor league baseball by Robert Obojski (Macmillan, $9.95). . . . All the big games, as covered in contemporary accounts, are gathered by Red Smith into The New York Times Book of Base- ball History (Quadrangle, May, $12.95). The same house issues Timesman Joseph Durso’s muckraking series on The Sports Factory: An Investigation into College Sports (June, $8.95). . . . The Mark Spitz Complete Book of Swimming is illustrated (T. Y. Crowell, June, $7.95). . . . Peter J. Golenbock chronicles the years of the Dy- nasty: The New York Yankees 1949-1964 (Prentice-Hall, May, $9.95). The same house issues Pete Rose’s own story, Charlie Hustle (June, $7.95). . . . Robert Obojski’s The Rise of Japanese Baseball Power should spur rearmament, if anything can (Chilton, June, $8.95).

■ Films: Jaws, Peter Benchley’s bestseller, is due for June release. . . . Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen Bite the Bullet. . . . Brannigan is John Wayne’s latest. . . . Elaine May is guiding Peter Falk and John Cassavetes through Mikey and Nicky for Paramount. . . . Gene Hackman is back at the well for French Connection II at Fox. . . . Warner landed Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward for The Drowning Pool. . . . Helen Hayes returns to co-star with Peter Ustinov in One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. . . . Due for reissue: A Lion in Winter, Snow White, Dirty Harry, Bambi, and Patton. . . . Warner had Neil Simon adapt his own Broadway hit, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, for Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft. . . . Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Jill Ireland star in Columbia’s Hard Times. . . . Richard Roundtree will be Man Friday to Peter O’Toole’s Crusoe.

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■ Sports Books: Tom Fitzpatrick assays Durocher on and off the field in Leo the Lip (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Bush League is a history of minor league baseball by Robert Obojski (Macmillan, $9.95). . . . All the big games, as covered in contemporary accounts, are gathered by Red Smith into The New York Times Book of Base- ball History (Quadrangle, May, $12.95). The same house issues Timesman Joseph Durso’s muckraking series on The Sports Factory: An Investigation into College Sports (June, $8.95). . . . The Mark Spitz Complete Book of Swimming is illustrated (T. Y. Crowell, June, $7.95). . . . Peter J. Golenbock chronicles the years of the Dy- nasty: The New York Yankees 1949-1964 (Prentice-Hall, May, $9.95). The same house issues Pete Rose’s own story, Charlie Hustle (June, $7.95). . . . Robert Obojski’s The Rise of Japanese Baseball Power should spur rearmament, if anything can (Chilton, June, $8.95).

■ Films: Jaws, Peter Benchley’s bestseller, is due for June release. . . . Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen Bite the Bullet. . . . Brannigan is John Wayne’s latest. . . . Elaine May is guiding Peter Falk and John Cassavetes through Mikey and Nicky for Paramount. . . . Gene Hackman is back at the well for French Connection II at Fox. . . . Warner landed Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward for The Drowning Pool. . . . Helen Hayes returns to co-star with Peter Ustinov in One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. . . . Due for reissue: A Lion in Winter, Snow White, Dirty Harry, Bambi, and Patton. . . . Warner had Neil Simon adapt his own Broadway hit, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, for Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft. . . . Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and Jill Ireland star in Columbia’s Hard Times. . . . Richard Roundtree will be Man Friday to Peter O’Toole’s Crusoe.