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...surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers--and baseball became the theme music of her childhood...
Goodwin explains in the book's introduction that she originally intended Wait Till Next Year to be the coming-of-age story of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan--a follow-up to her role in Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. Discovering her love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her childhood as a whole, she realized that the story would have to take on a larger dimension. She set about the project, then, as any diligent historian would, collecting documents and photographing and contacting nearly everyone who lived in her neighborhood when she was a child. "My intention to write...
...fact is, when it comes to emotional bonds, genetics helps. The two practically-identical-fraternal twins were born Nov 4, 1977 in Brooklyn, N.Y. to father Earl and mother Dale, a '76 Medical School grad...
...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 Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...over the years. Janet 1.0 was tentative, but Janet 2.0 asserted her identity on Control (1986). On Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) Janet 3.0 began to address social issues (her solutions: dancing and uniforms). Finally, on janet., her 1993 CD, Janet 4.0 adopted a bohemian, just-kicking-it-at-a-Brooklyn-house-party cool, posing on the back cover with jeans unzipped and midriff bare, her body ready for anything...