The Crowd Sounds Happy

By Nicholas Dawidoff

Release : 2008-05-06

Genre : Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Industries & Professions, Sports & Outdoors, Baseball

Kind : ebook

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Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.

The Crowd Sounds Happy

By Nicholas Dawidoff

Release : 2008-05-06

Genre : Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Industries & Professions, Sports & Outdoors, Baseball

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is the moving tale of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times.

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