Echoing Green The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World

Name: Echoing Green The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
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ISBN: 9780375713071

ISBN-10: 0375713077

ISBN-13: 9780375713071

Edition: N/A

Authors: Joshua Prager

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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 Greenfollows 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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.80" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Prologue



Our Sports Shall Be Seen



The Darkening Green



Such Were the Joys


Epilogue


Acknowledgements


Author's Note


Notes


Bibliography


Index