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Item specifics

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Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
9780684824895

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0684824892
ISBN-13
9780684824895
eBay Product ID (ePID)
666462

Product Key Features

Book Title
Wait Till Next Year : a Memoir
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / General, General, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-039766
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
796.357/092 B
Synopsis
Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries. We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers. This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties.
LC Classification Number
GV875.B7G66 1997

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  • by salvcasti_78
    03 Sep, 2022

    I will read it again.

    No cons. For me, it brought back memories of growing up in a city with three great teams and rivalries and how we argued over who was the best center fielder, Mays, Mantle or Snyder. It wasn't all about baseball but a way of life for a country coming out of a world war. I read it in two days.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: second.sale

  • by jo.joedu.zamtdqfup
    04 Jun, 2025

    Heartwarming and timely for me personally.

    It was therapeutic for me to deal with my brother's recent passing. He had a similar bond with our father over baseball. It reminded me of so many features of life in the 1950's.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: mtwyouth

  • by fww8g79
    15 Jul, 2025

    Loved this book

    Such a great memoir about growing up in the 50’s as a baseball fan. Loved it!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: murchandise

  • by lynne_artist
    22 Jun, 2021

    Baseball in the 1950's and the life then.

    The bookt takes me back to the 1950's and I learned more about baseball ando other topics ofthe era.. It is very well written.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thrift.books

  • by tinyg83
    30 Apr, 2020

    easy reading

    very well written

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: second.sale

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