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Summary: Excellent read for anyone who grew up in the 50's.
Review: You don't have to be a baseball fan to appreciate thisexcellent story of growing up in the 1950's. Goodwin captures the aroma of that time: A child laying on her front lawn, waiting for her father to come home from the train, communicating with her best friend next door via a string on a pulley, going to the beach and deciding who is the best center fielder in New York, and watching your childhood friends move away as the neighborhood changs. I've been there, as I'm sure many of my early baby boomers have. I still carry the book in my briefcase even after I've finished it. I don't want to put my past down.
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Summary: Excellent read for anyone who grew up in the 50's.
Review: You don't have to be a baseball fan to appreciate this excellent story of growing up in the 1950's. Goodwin captures the aroma of that time: A child laying on her front lawn, waiting for her father to come home from the train, communicating with her best friend next door via a string on a pulley, going to the beach and deciding who is the best center fielder in New York, and watching your childhood friends move away as the neighborhood changs. I've been there, as I'm sure many of my early baby boomers have. I still carry the book in my briefcase even after I've finished it. I don't want to put my past down.
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Summary: Insipid and simpering.
Review: Having grown up in Rockville Centre myself, I have to wonderwhat alternate universe Ms. Goodwin is coming from. Her description of her "happy" childhood certainly bears no similarity to the eerily apathetic and segregated (to this day!) bedroom village I knew. I realize that this will have no bearing on the estimations of readers who did not have the "benefit" of being reared in the black hole that is Nassau County, but I have to say that the whole book reads like a fairy-tale revisionist fabrication.
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Summary: Insipid and simpering.
Review: Having grown up in Rockville Centre myself, I have to wonder what alternate universe Ms. Goodwin is coming from. Her description of her "happy" childhood certainly bears no similarity to the eerily apathetic and segregated (to this day!) bedroom village I knew. I realize that this will have no bearing on the estimations of readers who did not have the "benefit" of being reared in the black hole that is Nassau County, but I have to say that the whole book reads like a fairy-tale revisionist fabrication.
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Summary: A geart nostalgic book of the Brooklyn Dodger Years
Review: I loved this book from cover to cover. It reminded me of myyouthful days in good old Brooklyn. She is forgiven for not mentioning Dan Bankhead as the second negro player on the Dodgers, first Black pitcher (not Don Newcombe) in the Majors and the the first Black ball player to hit a homerun at his first time at bat, I know, I was at the game at Ebbets field in 1947 as a 15 year old kid.
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Summary: A geart nostalgic book of the Brooklyn Dodger Years
Review: I loved this book from cover to cover. It reminded me of my youthful days in good old Brooklyn. She is forgiven for not mentioning Dan Bankhead as the second negro player on the Dodgers, first Black pitcher (not Don Newcombe) in the Majors and the the first Black ball player to hit a home run at his first time at bat, I know, I was at the game at Ebbets field in 1947 as a 15 year old kid.
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Summary: Absorbing look at baseball ... and life
Review: Dr. Kearns Goodwin produced a very good book here. Herenthusiasm for her subjects - the Dodgers, her neighborhood, her friends and family - is infectious. After finishing the book I felt I knew all of the people in her neighborhood personally. The book was alternately touching, laugh-out-loud funny, and informative. I highly recommend Dr. Kearns Goodwin's book to all who love baseball ... and life.
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Summary: Absorbing look at baseball ... and life
Review: Dr. Kearns Goodwin produced a very good book here. Her enthusiasm for her subjects - the Dodgers, her neighborhood, her friends and family - is infectious. After finishing the book I felt I knew all of the people in her neighborhood personally. The book was alternately touching, laugh-out-loud funny, and informative. I highly recommend Dr. Kearns Goodwin's book to all who love baseball ... and life.
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Summary: What leasons we can learn...
Review: The book sent me back to a time I only heard about growing up.What leasons we all can learn from that simpler time. Doris truly admired her parents - what a rare find these days. Her father was an endearing man - I loved the way he hid from Doris the fact that the box scores were available in the newspaper every day strictly to allow Doris her time with his undivided attention. What self-esteem and pride he instilled with such ease. The fond memories Doris has of her mother and how she helped her with her studies with the box of oreo cookies jogged some old memories, too! The impressions that her parents left on Doris are those that I can only hope to leave with my children. Doris' account of her First Penance is priceless. As a Catholic, it brought back such memories of the lessons and memorization we all went through! As a baseball fan, it truly relayed the excitement of the time and how baseball was meant to be played & followed. Thank you, Doris, for sending me into a time about which I have only heard. With both of my parents gone, it gave me an opportunity to re-visit the stories of their young adulthood. I only wish that they were alive to encourage them to read it. They would then be able to thank you themselves.
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Summary: What leasons we can learn...
Review: The book sent me back to a time I only heard about growing up. What leasons we all can learn from that simpler time. Doris truly admired her parents - what a rare find these days. Her father was an endearing man - I loved the way he hid from Doris the fact that the box scores were available in the newspaper every day strictly to allow Doris her time with his undivided attention. What self-esteem and pride he instilled with such ease. The fond memories Doris has of her mother and how she helped her with her studies with the box of oreo cookies jogged some old memories, too! The impressions that her parents left on Doris are those that I can only hope to leave with my children. Doris' account of her First Penance is priceless. As a Catholic, it brought back such memories of the lessons and memorization we all went through! As a baseball fan, it truly relayed the excitement of the time and how baseball was meant to be played & followed. Thank you, Doris, for sending me into a time about which I have only heard. With both of my parents gone, it gave me an opportunity to re-visit the stories of their young adulthood. I only wish that they were alive to encourage them to read it. They would then be able to thank you themselves.
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