Description: From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Times comes a touching memoir of a young girl growing up in love with her father and baseball.<P>Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, this memoir re-creates the postwar era, where the corner store was a place to share stories, and where neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.<P>We meet the people who most influenced Doris 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. 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.<P>"For self-esteem-building role models, for baseball lore and inning-by-inning action, and for a lively trip into the recent American past, you could hardly do better". -- The New York Times Book Review<P>"Skillful, entertaining...charming...a fine writer's conscious mastery of her difficult craft". -- The Boston Globe<P>"Goodwin superbly weaves together...experiences she shared with millions of other war babies and boomers, and those unique to a specific place, time, and family". -- Booklist

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