Wait Till Next Year : A Memoir (AUDIO CASSETTE)

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Summary: A very rich and rewarding read.
Review: I enjoyed this memoir so much I wrote a personal note of thanks to the author. Her story of family struggles and triumphs are very moving. The story is a terrific legacy to leave to her children. This is must reading for anyone born in 1943, who lived in the New York metropolitan area in the 1950's and early 60's, and followed baseball particularly the Yankees and Dodgers.

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Summary: Boring - if I was 10 years older it could be my life
Review: I was very disappointed. This is just a nice little life insuburban New York rooting for thie Brooklyn Dodgers in the 50's. It's perhaps too similar to my life - in suburban Chicago rooting for the Cubs in the 60's-70's except my team never won.

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Summary: Boring - if I was 10 years older it could be my life
Review: I was very disappointed. This is just a nice little life in suburban New York rooting for thie Brooklyn Dodgers in the 50's. It's perhaps too similar to my life - in suburban Chicago rooting for the Cubs in the 60's-70's except my team never won.

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Summary: This book brought back wonderful memories, and a tear or two
Review: This is the best book I have read in a long, long time. Igrew up in the 50's in Detroit and knew every Tiger just by the number on his back. I had my score book, too. (Blue cover). I was lucky enough to see them win the World Series, but had to wait until 1968. The stories of the neighborhood were even more enjoyable. I had a lot of Catholic friends, and they also thought there would be big trouble for them if they stepped in my Lutheran church. Our neighborhood butcher used to let me come in the back and watch him ground steak into hamburger. I had almost forgot these things. My mom was also sickly, so I identified with Doris on almost every page. In fact, the only reason I put the book down, was so that I wouldn't finish it too quickly.

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Summary: This book brought back wonderful memories, and a tear or two
Review: This is the best book I have read in a long, long time. I grew up in the 50's in Detroit and knew every Tiger just by the number on his back. I had my score book, too. (Blue cover). I was lucky enough to see them win the World Series, but had to wait until 1968. The stories of the neighborhood were even more enjoyable. I had a lot of Catholic friends, and they also thought there would be big trouble for them if they stepped in my Lutheran church. Our neighborhood butcher used to let me come in the back and watch him ground steak into hamburger. I had almost forgot these things. My mom was also sickly, so I identified with Doris on almost every page. In fact, the only reason I put the book down, was so that I wouldn't finish it too quickly.

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Summary: Doris Kearns Goodwin makes History more fascinating.........
Review: Never has one author caputured the art of writing especiallyabout Baseball, the Kennedy's, the Roosevelts. I love to read her reading, she is most intelligent and makes me want to absorb more and more history. She brings back great feelings of a girl/her father/the love of BaseBall. Thank you Doris !!!

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Summary: Doris Kearns Goodwin makes History more fascinating.........
Review: Never has one author caputured the art of writing especially about Baseball, the Kennedy's, the Roosevelts. I love to read her reading, she is most intelligent and makes me want to absorb more and more history. She brings back great feelings of a girl/her father/the love of BaseBall. Thank you Doris !!!

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Summary: Doris and I grew up together in different cities...
Review: Although my father and I shared our love of the Laker'sbasketball team as I grew up in Los Angeles, I enjoyed Doris Kearns Goodwin's account of her childhood and her relationship to her father. I came to understand the bond shared between my father and me as we thrilled to spectacular plays or agonized over "those lousy Lakers" when they lost. My favorite part is her friends in the butcher shop and their care and concern for the young girl in their neighborhood. Read this book..you can't help but enjoy it!

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Summary: Doris and I grew up together in different cities...
Review: Although my father and I shared our love of the Laker's basketball team as I grew up in Los Angeles, I enjoyed Doris Kearns Goodwin's account of her childhood and her relationship to her father. I came to understand the bond shared between my father and me as we thrilled to spectacular plays or agonized over "those lousy Lakers" when they lost. My favorite part is her friends in the butcher shop and their care and concern for the young girl in their neighborhood. Read this book..you can't help but enjoy it!

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Summary: Great primer on American history and culture for children
Review: My two sons are both under the age of eight and fanatics forbaseball. Because Goodwin weaves baseball through her memoir, her wonderful book has served admirably well as an introduction to recent American history (McCarthyism, Communism, the advent of TV, racism, politics), Catholicism, the comfortable rituals and unexpected problems of family life, and baseball lore. Goodwin shifts a bit between presenting events retrospectively (as an adult) and reconstructions of what she remembered as a child, but no matter -- the boys are revitted. Baseball as a dependable continuum for the unfathomable chaos of history, brilliant!