Word: chavez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started in the cheap seats at New York City's Ebbets Field watching the old Brooklyn Dodgers. When the team moved to Los Angeles, Actor-Comedian Danny Kaye went to the box seats and became one of the staunchest rooters in Chavez Ravine. But come spring, Kaye, 63, will be doing his cheering in Seattle, where he and five local businessmen have just bought the American League's newest major league franchise for $5.5 million. Will Danny have any playing tips for his yet unnamed team? Hardly, considering his own boyhood performance at the plate. "Mondays, Wednesdays...
That is pure fiction and simple inattention to detail. As Chavez says (on page 212) someone gave him a cane, "and by the time we got to Modesto where I celebrated my birthday on the fifteenth day of the march, I was okay...
...comment on Daly's assessment that I "failed to bring out many of the latent elements in Chavez's personality" because my "sympathy for Chavez" kept me from asking Chavez "the hard questions." The only reason I can't comment, of course, is because Daly fails to mention what those "latent elements" are, or what the "hard questions" were. I strongly suspect, however, that if Daly made such a list, I could supply him with page references...
Daly also says I went to California five years ago when Chavez's organizing efforts began to attract national attention. Here, too, he is mistaken. My career in journalism took me to California in 1952, and I have been there ever since...
...Daly's parting shot that I have "thrown five years of impressive research into a book designed to promote Chavez rather than explain him," I can only hope that truly perceptive readers will find otherwise. I am gratified that many other reviewers have disagreed with Mr. Daly's opinion. Jacques Levy