Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir
Simon & Schuster · Print & ebook · June 2, 1998
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A memoir that treats baseball as both pastime and vantage point.
- Themes
- family, baseball, coming of age
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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.
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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.
Baseball, Thoughtfully
A memoir that treats baseball as both pastime and vantage point.
Come here for
- memoir with baseball in the frame
- serious, reflective sports writing
Expect
- book-club conversation
- cultural context over box-score detail
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 80% |
|---|---|
| Baseball | 39% |
| 20th-Century America | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- 20th-Century America
- Baseball Essays
- Authors
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- June 2, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- family · baseball · coming of age
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs