Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Description
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.
From Publishers Weekly
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Customer Reviews
By Cheryl Frizzy
Engaging, well written by this master story teller of history. Especially meaningful for those of us who grew up in New York and who grew to love baseball through the eyes of our parents. Poignant look back at a simpler time of precomputer friendships, of bike rides and libraries, of autograph books and corner stores.

- $11.99
- Category: Biographies & Memoirs
- Published: Nov 24, 2009
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Seller: SIMON AND SCHUSTER DIGITAL SALES INC
- Print Length: 272 Pages
- Language: English
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