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THE ECHOING GREEN: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and th Shot Heard Round the World
by Prager, Joshua
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- ISBN 10
- 0375421548
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421549
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Pantheon, NY, 2006. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; ISBN: 0375421548. ISBN/EAN: 9780375421549. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13552. . 9780375421549
Synopsis
The 1951 regular season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. And not once in major league baseball's 278 preceding playoff and World Series games had a team overcome a three-run deficit in the ninth inning. But New York rallied, and at 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The Giants won the pennant.The Echoing Green follows the reverberations of that one moment--the Shot Heard Round the World--from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse, where a home run forever turned hitter and pitcher into hero and goat.It was also in that centerfield block of concrete that, after the home run, a Giant coach tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The spyglass would remain undiscovered until 2001, when, in the jubilee of that home run, Joshua Prager laid bare on the front page of the Wall Street Journal a Giant secret: from July 20, 1951, through the very day of that legendary game, the orange and black stole the finger signals of opposing catchers. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail the 1951 pennant race and illuminating as never before the impact of both a moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca. A wonderfully evocative portrait of the great American pastime, The Echoing Green is baseball history, social history and biography--irresistible reading from any angle.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- THE ECHOING GREEN: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and th Shot Heard Round the World
- Author
- Prager, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375421548
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421549
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- BZDB185 Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; ISBN: 0375421548 EAN: 9780375421549 Prager, Joshua THE ECHOING GREEN: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and th Shot Heard Round the World
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I have been a bookseller since 1986 and closed my shop in 2001 to concentrate on mail order and do some writing. My stock includes a large selection of books on Baseball, True Crime, Ohioana, Botany, Literature, and Music. And I've cowritten two books: Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues with Frazier Robinson (1999) and Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler with Mark Dawidziak (2011, foreword by Ken Burns). Mark Dawidziak and I have also written introductions to six reissues of Tully's books: Circus Parade (foreword by Harvey Pekar), Shanty Irish (foreword by John Sayles), The Bruiser (foreword by Gerald Early), Blood on the Moon, Shadows of Men, and Tully's breakthrough book, Beggars of Life.
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