


The daddy's girl who so avidly shared in his baseball dreams and in the dramas of Or rather, like all mascots, she was made, not born, but the role clearly took and stuck. (They were Giant loyalists.) Doris Kearns Goodwin, as her disarming memoir shows, was a born mascot - anĮndearing emblem of high hopes and undauntable energy. The butchers in her hometown of Rockville Centre on Long Island called her Ragmop, and fondly taunted the irrepressible fan. Audio Interview: Terry Gross Interviews Doris Kearns Goodwin, 1997Įr father, who inspired in her a passion for the Brooklyn Dodgers, called his daughter Bubbles because she ''seemed to enjoy so many things.''.Doris Kearns Goodwin fondly remembers the 1950's and, especially, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
