Unaware of such phenomena as evening newspapers, Goodwin believed that she was her father's sole source of Dodger information.īaseball is established not just as the principal medium of father-daughter communication but as a catalyst to Goodwin's eventual career. Every summer afternoon, she listened to Red Barber's Dodger broadcast and kept score, then bestowed upon her father each evening a thorough play-by-play of the day's game. Goodwin tells us that at age 6 (in 1949), she was given a baseball score book by her father. The baseball content here, what there is of it, is just fine.

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What emerges is a perfectly affable and often very poignant memoir, with the author's childhood set against the background of what she calls 'that deceptively tranquil decade of the nineteen fifties.' This is good and well, except that the book is called 'Wait Till Next Year,' the perennial lament of the Brooklyn Dodgers fan, and the book's appeal is certainly pegged on Goodwin's 'Baseball' persona as much as her celebrity as a prize-winning historian. Thinking about the Dodgers summoned recollections of my family, my neighborhood, my village, and the evolution of my own sensibilities.' 'As I set to work, however, I saw that my early involvement with baseball was an indistinguishable part of my childhood in Rockville Centre, Long Island. In her preface, Goodwin explains, 'I set out to write a story of my own coming of age as a Brooklyn Dodger fan, a story that would be peopled not by leaders of the nation, but by Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Amoros, and the infamous Bobby Thomson. For better or worse, the emphasis here is on growing up, with baseball often shunted to the back burner. Now Goodwin follows her Pulitzer Prize-winning epic on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, 'No Ordinary Time,' with this slim memoir of growing up a baseball fan on Long Island in the 1950s. 473 of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' or listened to 'Take Me out to the Ball Game' performed by chimpanzees with kazoos, Goodwin would step in with a trenchant comment or a wistful recollection that hit the spot. Left a particularly pompous taste in our collective mouth, or we'd just endured version No. ' leviathan 'Baseball' documentary on PBS-TV was Doris Kearns Goodwin.

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