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Pafko at the Wall|Don Delillo

Pafko at the Wall : The Prologue to Underworld

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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 75th 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781668227756
  • ISBN-10: 1668227754
  • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
  • Publish Date: September 2026
  • Dimensions: 7.27 x 5.23 x 0.69 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
  • Page Count: 128

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