Robin K. (bashevis) reviewed on 8/8/2011 + 3 more book reviews

I'm not a huge baseball fan--nor much of a memoir fan either, to be honest. Since I have always admired Doris Kearns Goodwin and since none of her other books are posted, I thought I'd read this one. It took me a little while to warm up to it; don't know if it was her writing or just me. Her family certainly has an interesting and challenging history. Once the story got going, even the baseball parts kind of took on a life of their own. A warm and inspiring and, yes, nostalgic story. As comforting as our memory of the 1950s may be, Ms. Goodwin's story also reminds us that it was not as simple and warm and fuzzy a time as we prefer to remember.

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