On this day, however, the stakes are raised significantly when the narrator discovers a difficult, saddening secret about his father. They get a special lift from their proximity to this golden team of graced athletes, even if they can never go inside the gate.
The boys may have little in the way of monetary goods, but they do live within walking distance of Yankee stadium. Disappointed, but not surprised by his present, the young narrator in The Babe & I spends his birthday afternoon wandering neighborhood streets with his best friend Jacob, discussing-as always-the New York Yankees and the world's greatest baseball player, Babe Ruth.
So begins David Adler's inspired tale of the challenges and magic-yes, magic-of a depression-era childhood spent in the Bronx, New York.
"For my birthday I was hoping my parents would give me a bicycle.
0 kommentar(er)
