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“There’s a long drive.
It’s gonna be.
I believe.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.”
— Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951
On the fiftieth anniversary of “The Shot Heard Round the World,” Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson’s pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher’s box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra’s celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game — the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo’s transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.
ASIN : B001D1YCYA
Publisher : Scribner (June 30, 2008)
Publication date : June 30, 2008
Language : English
File size : 3796 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 96 pages
List Price: $2.99
