{ "item_title" : "Pafko at the Wall", "item_author" : [" "], "item_description" : "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, 1951On 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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers2/ebook/43/54/9781439105443_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "2.99", "our_price" : "2.99", "club_price" : "2.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "club_savings_amt" : "0", "club_savings_pct" : "0" } }

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