Summary Of Fan By Doris Kearns Goodwin

The essay I chose to speak about is “Fan” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. In the essay Goodwin shared her passion with baseball along with her farther. They were both huge fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. They shared their passion by watching and going to the games, keeping the stats, and supporting the team. When the Brooklyn Dodgers, lost the playoff/tie breaker game against the Giants. Goodwin was heartbroken. But her father was there to say “"They'll win next year.” With that in mind the Dodgers did win that following year but then the owner decided to move the team to Los Angeles. In fact after her favorite team did moved from her hometown, her mother died. She said “her feelings for baseball seemed as an aspect of her departing youth…..to

The other essays we read just dealt with passion one had with something. Fan was about a passion one shared with someone else where both were spectators. One quote alone stuck out to me and that was “Wait till next year.” This quote was said twice in the essay by her father first then again repeated by her children years later. Kids who didn’t get to meet her father nor heard the words “Wait till next year.” The quote stuck out to me because it showed how this family’s passion for baseball ran through three generations. The father carried it on to Goodwin, his daughter, and she introduced the passion to her kids who also became big fans. This essay showed me that passion can come in different shades/styles and can be shared throughout a family. Passion does not only come from participating in the sport but passion can also come from being a fan of a sport. Another quote in the essay when Goodwin stated she “mastered all the miniature symbols that allowed me to record every movement, play by play, of our favorite players, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese and Gil Hodges,” she let readers know she knew baseball like she played the sport but in reality she was just a big fan. When Goodwin described the field at Fenway Park with the special ramp that she says “Ramp 33 is my ramp.” That particular quote, along with others, showed me as a reader how much passion she had for the sport. Through this essay

I share a passion of Track and Field with my mother. I feel as me and Goodwin grew up the same way. She was motherless while I was fatherless. However we both have a passion that we share with a parent. Just so happens that our parents brought us to their passion at a young age. As it is clear that the passion wasn’t just any passion, it was strong enough to pass it on to their offspring. Just as she would sit with her father to watch baseball, “recalling the Dodgers of his childhood,” me and my mother would sit and watch Track and Field and she would compare todays runners to the runners she remembered from her childhood. At a young age I also learned track and field terms just as she did when writing stats for her book. Another similarity we share is how the passion is carried through out a generation. My mother passed it to me and I hope to pass it on to my kids. Just as Goodwin’s father passed it on to her and she introduced her kids to the family passion of being a fan of baseball to her kids who always remind her of the times she shared with her father. She described Fenway Park by calling out of the ramps as “my ramp.” She loved the way she entered at the same angle to the field. Well one encounter I had with one particular field was when I made it to the Jr. Olympics in VA. A place I have never been before. The first day of the games I remember entering at one angle I called it my