Written on: 18/08/2005 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)
Scooter
Mick Foley
Knopf, Aug 2005, $23.95
ISBN: 1400044146
In 1964 four year old Scooter Reilly grows up in the Bronx, a borough in flux with the working white middle class fleeing to Long Island. His grandpa, a retired firefighter who lives nearby, is around more than his dad, who works a police beat in Harlem. Dad has two interests: beer and the Yankees; ergo Scooter is named for legendary player Phil Rizzuto
In 1969 dad gets drunk over the Mets, not his Yanks winning the World...
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