Baseball, Football, Daddy and Me

by David Friend, Rick Brown (Illustrator)

A little boy and his father enjoy a full assortment of sporting events together.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

David Friend is an editor, author, and award-winning documentary producer with a career spanning journalism, photography, and film. Since 1998, he has been the editor of creative development at Vanity Fair, following his tenure as Life magazine’s director of photography. His work has shaped major journalistic projects, including the 2005 Vanity Fair story that revealed FBI insider Mark Felt as “Deep Throat,” the confidential Watergate source. He also played a key role in expanding Vanity Fair into books, e-books, television, and digital media, launching VanityFair.com.
As an author, Friend has explored cultural and historical themes in books such as Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (2006), The Naughty Nineties (2017), and two volumes on human existence, The Meaning of Life and More Reflections on the Meaning of Life. In the realm of documentary film, he is an Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer, with projects including Lakota Nation vs. United States (2023), MLK/FBI (2021), and the widely broadcast CBS prime-time special 9/11.
Beyond journalism and film, Friend has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Middle East, coedited 13 Vanity Fair books, and curated photography exhibitions on three continents. His poetry has been published in The New Yorker, further highlighting the breadth of his creative work.

Reviews

[Falan Miller]

This is a cute little book. It is about a boy and his dad and all of the sports events they get to go to together. The little boy admires his dad and loves attending every sporting event with him. At the end of the day, the little boys favorite thing to do with his dad is play catch.

This book is really sweet and is written in a poem. I like how the father and sons relationship. It portrays a really good father.

I think you would have to be careful reading this book in your classroom. Some children might not have a dad or any type of father figure. Others dads might not be in their life like that. I feel like some kids would feel sad if they did not have a father like the one in this book. This would be a good book for fathers to read to their kids.

[Johnboy Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a good choice to read for Father's day