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Wait Till Next Year

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	Wait Till Next Year
Author	:	Doris Kearns Goodwin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 1998 by Simon Schuster (first published October 1st 1997)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction. History. Biography

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By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.

We meet the 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.

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Original Title:	Wait Till Next Year
ISBN:	0684847957 (ISBN13: 9780684847955)
Edition Language:	English

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Womens History Month 2019 continues with a reread of a personal favorite. Did anyone ever discover a book that was written just for them? Wait Til Next by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of the United States master historian storytellers, is such a book for me. I first discovered Doris Kearns Goodwin in 1994 when Ken Burns sought a female voice to balance out the men as a narrator for his new documentary Baseball. Missing the season cut short by a strike, I turned to Burns film for comfort but was

Doris Kearns Goodwin--Are you my mother? I so enjoyed this memoir...the love of baseball pervades much of this recollection from DKG's youth and that, along with her fondness for reading aloud, was enough for me to connect with her story. My father passed away last month and many of my happiest memories of him revolve around watching our beloved team. DKG had the '55 Brooklyn Dodgers and we had our '86 Mets...It just felt like a hug.

When I find a writer I really love, I always want to know more about her. I'm curious to know what it was about her childhood or family life or life experience that shaped her thinking and writing. Doris Kearns Goodwin is my favorite non-fiction writer, so when I recently discovered that she had written a short memoir about her childhood growing up in the suburbs of New York in 1950's and her passionate love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, I quickly scrounged up a copy (thank you Amazon) and read it in

Not a big fan of anything New York, but I enjoyed this memoir. It's nice to read something written by a woman in a genre that's usually the bastion of men. There are many women baseball fans; it's nice to read the memoirs of an intelligent, talented writer like Ms. Goodwin.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is best known for her presidential biographies. However, she is also an inveterate lover of baseball. Kearns Goodwin grew up in Long Island, NY, in a close, lower middle class neighborhood in the 1940s and 1950s. At that time there were three baseball teams in NY the Yankees (its hard for me, a Red Sox fan to even write that name) in the Bronx, the Giants in Manhattan, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodgers were (was?) Jackie Robinsons team, and during Kearns Goodwins

Lots of fun, even if you come from a family of Yankees fans.Doris Kearns Goodwin is better known for her presidential histories. I've enjoyed her The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Team of Rivals. In this memoir we get to learn more about her own life and upbringing.She grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, in the late '40s and '50s. The important themes of her childhood seem to be [A] Catholicism and [B] the Brooklyn Dodgers, not necessarily in that order.And I have to say, her childhood

Womens History Month 2019 continues with a reread of a personal favorite. Did anyone ever discover a book that was written just for them? Wait Til Next by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of the United States master historian storytellers, is such a book for me. I first discovered Doris Kearns Goodwin in 1994 when Ken Burns sought a female voice to balance out the men as a narrator for his new documentary Baseball. Missing the season cut short by a strike, I turned to Burns film for comfort but was