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Title: Great primer on American history and culture for children
Review: My two sons are both under the age of eight and fanatics for baseball. Because Goodwin weaves baseball through her memoir, her wonderful book has served admirably well as an introduction to recent American history (McCarthyism, Communism, the advent of TV, racism, politics), Catholicism, the comfortable rituals and unexpected problems of family life, and baseball lore. Goodwin shifts a bit between presenting events retrospectively (as an adult) and reconstructions of what she remembered as a child, but no matter -- the boys are revitted. Baseball as a dependable continuum for the unfathomable chaos of history, brilliant!
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