Wait Til Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: 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.

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"

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.

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.

More than Baseball

I enjoyed the descriptions of growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950’s and the feeling of changes that overcome us involuntarily. Bittersweet, thought-provoking. Were the 1950s really like that? I hope so. The relationships between the young author and her community were heartwarming. The diversity of the surroundings and her growing realizations as times changed, and the wonderful influence of her teachers who helped guide her head and heart toward thinking for herself, were memorable. While she is about a decade older than I, and her locale was on the opposite side of the country where I grew up, I found myself reflecting upon my own childhood in the Pacific Northwest during the years she cites: 1954, 56, 57, 58, etc. She was the age of my teenage baby-sitters, who so impressed me. I wonder, are children of this 3rd decade of this millennium forming memories that will guide them, and that they will remember and write memoirs about in the coming decades? I suppose the answer must be, yes. And I hope to be around long enough to read those memoirs.

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a masterful writer.

I love everything she has written. Baseball fan or not it will bring you back to your childhood. The simple days.