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Scott Lasser set his novel in Michigan.
"M- where I grew up, and it influ-
enced the way I view the world"
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S
con Lasser realized how long
he had been away from
Michigan
when his
mother's telephone
number had
changed to its third
area code since he
left. He's been good
about calling, and
now it appears, in a
broader sense, he's
been good about
writing, too.
Lasser's return to
his home state will be all about his
first novel, Battle Creek, a tale that fol
lows people devoted to amateur
sports. The former Detroiter will sign
copies May 18 at Borders in
Birmingham and May 19 at Shaman
Drum in Ann Arbor.
It's nor mere coincidence that the
novel's main character, Gil Davison, is
a Jewish baseball coach for a Detroit-
area team whose players have a wide
range of ages. The author's father,
Floyd Lasser, now living in Florida,
had been that kind of coach long after
playing ball in the 1956 Olympics.
"I tried not to
write about base-
ball because it's
publishes been done, but in
the end, it was
something that
just came back,"
says Lasser, 37, a
New York trea-
sury bill trader
who makes time
for writing in the
early morning
hours before work. "My milieu just
happened to be baseball, and what I
felt about Michigan had deepened and
made it matter.
Ultimately, what matters in the
novel are issues that go beyond the
game — mortality, ambition, chang-
ing dreams and family relationships.
"It was easier to write about Jewish
characters because I felt I wouldn't
Michigan native
Scott Lasser
his first book — a
baseball novel about
fathers, sons, ambition
and honor.
"