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Summary: A Perfect Summer Read
Review: With this fine memior, Doris Kearns captures the innocence of childhood and the connection of America to baseball. It is the prefect summer read, and it makes me wish I lived in times long past, when following a team from year to year, you would know the players on the rouster would remain the same. Written in the prose of a true baseball fan, the game sets a larger framework for a changing times. Five stars. A great story.
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Summary: A Girl's Love for Baseball
Review: This book was on my summer reading list for school. My father recommended it to me, seeing it was about a girl who likes baseball, and I am female and enjoy baseball. My father had recieved a copy of the book as a birthday present because it was about the Dodgers, his favorite baseball team. I was a little hesitent about reading the book because, although I enjoy watching and listening to baseball games, I find books about baseball a little boring. Boy was I wrong about this book. I couldn't put it down and I was sad when I had finished it. The book describes Doris Kearns Goodwin's life in the 50's when she was a little girl and how she came to love the game of baseball. The story includes everything from her rival with the local butchers who were Giants fans to her childhood worries of the train her father took everyday to work crashing. I would recommend this book not only to baseball fans, but to every girl that has watched a baseball game with their father.
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Summary: Love baseball? Read this memoir and smile. A lot.
Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin was the only woman, with whom I therefore identified, who was interviewed and gave commentary during Ken Burns' magnificent nine "inning" series on PBS called, "Baseball". As a young girl growing up in the fifties in Brooklyn, not too far from Ebbits Field, she became a great Brooklyn Dodgers fan at a tender age. As a way to spend precious time with her father after his work each day on Wall Street (as a bank examiner), she quickly moved from accurate scorekeeper to the kind of fan who fights with her best friends about which team is better, and has to leave the room during clinched plays because she couldn't bear to hear what would happen next. Not only a sweet memoir of a wonderful family, an infirmed but steadfast mother, a loving father (plagued by the inner ghosts of his orphan childhood), and a neighborhood of caring, somewhat heterogeneous families and townspeople, all of whom feed into the "you can't go home again" feel of this book. A fast read, and a must for anyone, man or woman who enjoys baseball and can appreciate the angst, tears, elation, and madness of being a loyal ball fan. When I asked my mother what she thought, she exclaimed, "oh yes, my god, it was like reading about my own childhood." (Apparently the fifties where more generally like Donna Reed than those of us who missed it, think).
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Summary: The touchy-feely stuff about Doris "blooming"
Review: into woman-hood may be a bit tedious to some, nontheless Ms Kearns-Goodwin is one of the premier story tellers of our time. I wouldn't think of buying the audio version of her book if she didn't narrate it herself. This is a story of the Brroklyn Dodgers 1949-55 but is intowoven with the story of a kinder gentler time in America's recent past. This book/tape could reassure any young lady that is quite alright to be a baseball fan. Unless you really hate baseball, this is a book suitable for everyone
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Summary: Patient, gentle memoir
Review: Wait Till Next Year is a poignant autobiography and a gentle, charming read. I've read segments of it to my children at bedtime -- they're six -- and they've identified easily with the little girl described in its earliest chapters. I find some of the obligatory social studies material a little less riveting -- the depiction of McCarthyism seems heavily colored by hindsight, for example -- but the book as a whole won me over.It would be a mistake to think of this purely as a sendup of 1950s baseball. Doris Kearns Goodwin does describe her fascination with the Dodgers in doting detail, but she's doing so partly to reveal her relationship with her father, her fellow fan. My kids and I would agree that the early childhood here rings true, and only one of us understands box scores. Don't let the cover throw you off. A fine, loving book (and a pleasure to read aloud).
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Summary: "Wait til Next Year" a winner!
Review: You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy "Wait TillNext Year", a gentle tale of growing up in the 50's. Author Doris Kearns Goodwin paints a nostalgic portrait of a time when children lived out a "Huck Finn" existence between the breakfast hour and the supper bell on sultry summer days. School days were a crazy mix of idealism and naivety, interrupted by occasional dives under the desks for nuclear bomb drills. I suspect that if the author had not been a white, middle-class baby boomer, this would have been an entirely different story. Indeed, Goodwin does touch on the beginnings of the Civil Rights struggles as she entered her high school years. Love baseball? There are enough first-hand accounts of some of the great names in the sport's history to hold your interest. Teens, want to understand your middle-aged mother better? Read this book! All in all, "Wait till Next Year" is a welcome escape from school shootings, Kosovo, and all the other tragedies of today.
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Summary: "Wait til Next Year" a winner!
Review: You don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy "Wait Till Next Year", a gentle tale of growing up in the 50's. Author Doris Kearns Goodwin paints a nostalgic portrait of a time when children lived out a "Huck Finn" existence between the breakfast hour and the supper bell on sultry summer days. School days were a crazy mix of idealism and naivety, interrupted by occasional dives under the desks for nuclear bomb drills. I suspect that if the author had not been a white, middle-class baby boomer, this would have been an entirely different story. Indeed, Goodwin does touch on the beginnings of the Civil Rights struggles as she entered her high school years. Love baseball? There are enough first-hand accounts of some of the great names in the sport's history to hold your interest. Teens, want to understand your middle-aged mother better? Read this book! All in all, "Wait till Next Year" is a welcome escape from school shootings, Kosovo, and all the other tragedies of today.
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Summary: This is an excellent book for baseball fans and evryone else
Review: Wait Till Next Year is a fabulous book. Even though I am only akid, I loved this book. Her feelings toward the Brooklyn Dodgers are exactly the same as mine toards the Orioles. Also, I thought it was extremely well written. I admire her father a lot.
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Summary: This is an excellent book for baseball fans and evryone else
Review: Wait Till Next Year is a fabulous book. Even though I am only a kid, I loved this book. Her feelings toward the Brooklyn Dodgers are exactly the same as mine toards the Orioles. Also, I thought it was extremely well written. I admire her father a lot.
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Summary: A Gem
Review: Wait Till Next Year is the finest memoir I have ever read.More than that, it is one of the outstanding books of any sort that you're likely to find. To me, this is not a baseball book. Bas eball is just the lens through which Goodwin examines issues like family, friendship, community, love, and coming of age. Has anyone ever been better at using small stories to state great truths?
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