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This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not...
"I had the luck to fall in love with baseball at the start of an era of pure delight for New York fans," she writes. "What a storied lineup my Dodgers had in the postwar seasons: Roy Campanella started behind the plate, Gil Hodges at first, Jackie Robinson at second...
Goodwin learned the game by keeping score in the red score books her father gave her. She listened to each game on the radio and kept meticulous notes so she could recount the game exactly to her father when he came home from work. He did not tell her for...
Equal in importance to her love affair with baseball was Goodwin's quirky relationship with the Catholic Church. For a child, Goodwin was remarkably devout to the teachings of the Church. She won catechism contests by naming the Seven Deadly Sins and took the teaching of the Church as the...
DIED. JOHNNY VANDER MEER, 82, Cincinnati Reds southpaw who pitched the only back-to-back no-hitters in major-league history; in Tampa, Fla. Vander Meer's career was ordinary, except for two extraordinary days in 1938, when he got a handle on his wild fastball, goose-egging both the...