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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the...
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- Objectstaat
- Goed
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 0375713077
- Book Title
- Echoing Green : the Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History
- Topic
- Baseball / History, Modern / 20th Century, Sports
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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This is the untold story of the secret scandal behind baseball's most legendary moment: The Shot Heard Round the World. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. At 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The ball sailed over the left field wall and into history. The Giants won the pennant. That moment--the Shot Heard Round the World--reverberated from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse, where hitter and pitcher forever turned into hero and goat. It was also in that centerfield block of concrete that, after the home run, a Giant coach tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail and illuminating as never before the impact of both a moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375713077
ISBN-13
9780375713071
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61650269
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Book Title
Echoing Green : the Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, Modern / 20th Century, Sports
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
20 oz
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Reviews
"A revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer ." The New York Times Book Review "Thrilling. . . . captures the enduring impact of the memorable moments that mark our lives." The Washington Post Book World "The most comprehensive account ever written of the most famous play in sports history." Newsday "This wonderful book is an absolute treasure. A master storyteller, Prager captures the reader from beginning to end."Doris Kearns Goodwin"A delightful book . . . You don't have to believe that the Giants stole the game to enjoy The Echoing Green . You don't even have to like baseball. That moment defined a generation." The New York Times "Compelling and thoughtful, the book meditates on the meaning of that home run in the legacies changed forever by a single crack of the bat." The Miami Herald "A seat along the first base line. . . . Prager, like a good hurler with a command of many pitches, delivers nuance even when you're expecting a fastball." The Plain Dealer "Prager turns his remarkable powers of investigation on the men involved in the scheme. The result is an absorbing critique of the competitive ethic that too often rules not only America's playing fields but its boardrooms as well." Sports Illustrated "The depth of Prager's research staggers the mind. . . . A must-have for baseball mavens." The Buffalo News "You will not find a better-reported book on any subject than The Echoing Green ." New York Post From the Trade Paperback edition., "A revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn's Boys of Summer ."- The New York Times Book Review "Thrilling. . . . captures the enduring impact of the memorable moments that mark our lives." - The Washington Post Book World "The most comprehensive account ever written of the most famous play in sports history." - Newsday "This wonderful book is an absolute treasure. A master storyteller, Prager captures the reader from beginning to end."-Doris Kearns Goodwin"A delightful book . . . You don't have to believe that the Giants stole the game to enjoy The Echoing Green . You don't even have to like baseball. That moment defined a generation." - The New York Times "Compelling and thoughtful, the book meditates on the meaning of that home run in the legacies changed forever by a single crack of the bat." - The Miami Herald "A seat along the first base line. . . . Prager, like a good hurler with a command of many pitches, delivers nuance even when you're expecting a fastball." - The Plain Dealer "Prager turns his remarkable powers of investigation on the men involved in the scheme. The result is an absorbing critique of the competitive ethic that too often rules not only America's playing fields but its boardrooms as well." - Sports Illustrated "The depth of Prager's research staggers the mind. . . . A must-have for baseball mavens." - The Buffalo News "You will not find a better-reported book on any subject than The Echoing Green ." - New York Post, From Kirkus Reviews Starred Review.Say it ain't so, Leo: an iconoclastic, most penetrating look at a famed 1951 clash between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Both teams long ago "deserted New York together," remarks Wall Street Journal writer Prager, yielding existential trauma yet unhealed. Well before leaving, on Oct. 3, 1951, their storied rivalry played itself to perfection in a pennant race to end all pennant races, "deadlocked after 156 games, seven innings and six months." It was, Prager writes, something that adults of a certain age would remember as surely as they did the death of JFK or FDR: Dodger Ralph Branca fires a fastball, Giant Bobby Thomson steps forward to swat it out of the park halfway to the moon, the Giants win. The moment is instantly celebrated as the greatest moment in baseball history, immortalized in novels by Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, in The Godfather and The Simpsons. Problem was, as Prager revealed on the 50th anniversary of the grand smack, Giants manager Leo Durocher, of fabulously foul mouth ("I never saw a fucking ball get out of a fucking ball park as fucking fast in my fucking life," he said of one Willie Mays homer), had stolen signals, employing spies with a telescope to suss out what the opposition was planning next. Durocher wasn't even the most masterful signal-stealer in the business, and it happened all the time, but he was also a gambler so profoundly compromised as to make Pete Rose look like a Brownie, and some writers have suggested that he be booted from the Hall of Fame for it. The whole affair was a black smudge on the gameand, as Prager patiently reveals, a dirty and tragic secret that would haunt both Thomson and Branca for decades to come. A masterful blend of journalism, sports history, social history and even literature: one of the best baseball books to appear in a long time. --Copyright ©2006, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. "For anyone, like me, who followed baseball during the golden age portrayed here, this wonderful book is an absolute treasure. But it is far more than a book about baseball; it is a beautifully rendered story about the relationship between two men whose lives became permanently intertwined in a matter of minutes one October day more than half a century ago. A master storyteller, Prager captures the reader from beginning to end." Doris Kearns Goodwin, author ofA Team of Rivals "Through diligent, painstaking and persistent research, Joshua Prager brings the 1951 pennant race to life inThe Echoing Green.He adds Tabasco to the story by charging that the Giants were stealing signs at the Polo Grounds and that Thomson knew what Ralph Branca was about to throw hima mediocre fast ball. This is juicy stuff and Prager's portrait of the time and the people in it is quite splendid." Roger Kahn, author ofThe Boys of Summer "Down-slope from Coogan's Bluff, the hollowed, hallowed ground on which Thomson bested Branca, the intrepid and indefatigable reporter Joshua Prager has revealed the dark side of the miracle." Nicholas Dawidoff, author ofThe Catcher was a Spy "The Echoing Greenis an intriguing, groundbreaking, and always riveting story of one of the greatest games ever played and its aftermath. A terrific read." Kevin Baker, author ofParadise Alley From the Hardcover edition., "A revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn'sBoys of Summer." -The New York Times Book Review "Thrilling. . . . captures the enduring impact of the memorable moments that mark our lives." -The Washington Post Book World "The most comprehensive account ever written of the most famous play in sports history." -Newsday "This wonderful book is an absolute treasure. A master storyteller, Prager captures the reader from beginning to end." -Doris Kearns Goodwin "A delightful book . . . You don't have to believe that the Giants stole the game to enjoyThe Echoing Green. You don't even have to like baseball. That moment defined a generation." -The New York Times "Compelling and thoughtful, the book meditates on the meaning of that home run in the legacies changed forever by a single crack of the bat." -The Miami Herald "A seat along the first base line. . . . Prager, like a good hurler with a command of many pitches, delivers nuance even when you're expecting a fastball." -The Plain Dealer "Prager turns his remarkable powers of investigation on the men involved in the scheme. The result is an absorbing critique of the competitive ethic that too often rules not only America's playing fields but its boardrooms as well." -Sports Illustrated "The depth of Prager's research staggers the mind. . . . A must-have for baseball mavens." -The Buffalo News "You will not find a better-reported book on any subject thanThe Echoing Green." -New York Post
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22
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