Summary Of From Father With Love Goodwin

In From Father, with Love by Doris Kearns Goodwin the carefree bond between a father and a daughter is made through the game of baseball, which accompanies her throughout the entire cycle of life. Goodwin states, “the game of baseball has always been linked in my mind with mystic texture of childhood…”As a child she acquires that “mystical link” to her father when she accompanies him for the very first time at the Ebbets Field in Brooklyn where he shares cherished memories about his favorite team, the Dodgers. Their relation allows her father to quench his nostalgia and reminisce in his exciting childhood by sharing his common interest with an unlikely audience and fellow devotee. As a result of her fathers passing their bond is extinguished