Doris Kearns Goodwin author of “From Father, with Love”, utilizes her passion of baseball to demonstrate how tradition can bond people of all ages because she sees family connections and traditions as an important piece to have a strong bond throughout all generations. Goodwin creates a parallel throughout the story that connects her father, herself, and her sons. The parallel begins when she describes her first baseball game she saw with her father, in which he “recall[ed] memories of his own father.” Goodwin makes a point to string the tradition along throughout each generation in her family tree. She uses the common motif of tradition throughout the essay, claiming that it even created a few friendships between herself and other women,“
