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Wait till next year : a memoir / Doris Kearns Goodwin.

by Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

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Simon & Schuster, c1997.

796.357092 G656w

Goodwin, Doris Kearns -- Childhood and youth.

Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)

Baseball fans -- United States -- Biography.

9780684847955 (pbk.)

261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, 'Wait Till Next Year' is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates teh postwar era, when the corner store was aplace to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet people who most influenced Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound; and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood." --Back cover.

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