Wait Til Next Year

De: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrado por: Suzanne Toren

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.

Easy read!

Loved how the author formulated her book around baseball in the 1950's. I particularly enjoyed how personal she got while describing her relationship with her family. I will definitely be reading more books by this author.

I"ll wear a Brooklyn Madcapoz hat for you...

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Loved the stories of her family...the baseball stories reminded me why I fell in love with baseball. The audio made it easier for me to here her the sweet voice of Miss Doris Kearns Goodwin...Catch up now the Legacy, of Wait Til Next Year...

What was one of the most memorable moments of Wait Till Next Year?

I"ll honest their wasn't one memorable moment for me. The only memory of the book is how she over came the passing of so many family members..As she would say: "Hit of the ballpark old little sparky" And thats what she did with the Book...

Which scene was your favorite?

the Ballparks...

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

no multiple locations..

Any additional comments?

Its just "LA"

A snapshot in time

Another tale from real life, it was good. Would have preferred if DKG had narrated it as it is written in her voice but the narrator didn't bring it across.

Great to learn about DKG

Great to learn about this brilliant historian and authors youth and background. She is a contemporary raised in another part of county but similarities - fasinating - we could have been friends.
LOVED her fallout shelter plan!!!!!

Delightful historical review

Loved the detail of an era gone by. I'm her same age and what a delight to bring back those baseball memories. I was a Dodger fan as well. My respect and appreciation for the author has quadrupled. Her other GREAT books were about others. This was a challenge and she mastered it.