The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball

Dawidoff like Augusten Burroughs, writes about his early life around family members with serious mental health problems only Dawidoff suffered more and never developed Burroughs sense of humor. Instead he earned a Harvard education and advanced to his current position as the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. It was baseball that helped Dawidoff maintain his sanity and if for...more

Dawidoff like Augusten Burroughs, writes about his early life around family members with serious mental health problems only Dawidoff suffered more and never developed Burroughs sense of humor. Instead he earned a Harvard education and advanced to his current position as the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. It was baseball that helped Dawidoff maintain his sanity and if for no other reason, I recommend this book to anyone who loves baseball and loves the tradition of baseball teams who always seem to be around after our political and economic storms pass over us from time-to-time. Baseball is always there when you need baseball.   hide