Overview
"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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Details
- 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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