![]() ![]() Then after dinner, she would recreate the game for him.įor several years, she was unaware that he knew the outcome before she began her account, but this allowed her to clarify her subsequent approach to history: ''I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. Every day she listened to the game on the radio and kept the box score, as he had taught her. Baseball was the common ground between her and her father. ![]() ![]() Outsiders can identify, and anyone with a similar background is bound to feel a wave of nostalgia for a period and a place that seem frozen in time.Īt the center of her book is baseball, her love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a team that stayed together and rewarded her fidelity. Goodwin's early life, the reader has a full understanding of how she became who she is, including her role as a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Looking back at her childhood, she evokes a thoroughly harmonious and often humorous portrait of a loving family that never would recognize the word dysfunctional. Growing up in the 1950's in the Long Island suburb of Rockville Centre, she defined herself by her family, her street, her town, her Roman Catholic religion and her team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. In her new book, ''Wait Till Next Year'' (Simon & Schuster), Doris Kearns Goodwin is a historian of her own life. ![]()
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