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      Pafko at the Wall

      by Don DeLillo
      Published
      Oct 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      96
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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 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.

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      First Edition Oct 2001 Scribner ISBN13 9780743230001 ISBN10 0743230000
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