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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35764097471
EAN: 9780375421549
ISBN: 0375421548
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Studio: Pantheon
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Editorial Review:
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 Green follows 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 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 spyglass would remain undiscovered until 2001, when, in the jubilee of that home run, Joshua Prager laid bare on the front page of the Wall Street Journal a Giant secret: from July 20, 1951, through the very day of that legendary game, the orange and black stole the finger signals of opposing catchers. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, re-creating in extravagant detail the 1951 pennant race 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. A wonderfully evocative portrait of the great American pastime, The Echoing Green is baseball history, social history and biography–irresistible reading from any angle.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Waking up the Echoes
Joshua Prager has done it. He has forced a diehard Dodgers fan (then, not now) to stop retreating from that awful moment on Oct. 3, 1951, and come face to face with it, feel it, smell it, breathe it, understand it. This is no mere sports book. It is cultural history, a close-up view of America at midcentury and something of an espionage yarn--but not too much of that because I avoid the Deighton and le Carre types. The writing style takes some getting used to, indeed some sleuthing-out. But once ... Read More
Rating:  - The Echoing Green
This book goes to the front of the sports book line. I was 15 years old when I watched Bobby Thomson hit the shot heard around the world. Joshua Prager recaptures the events leading up to the home run then takes you to a satisfying conclusion. You want a sports book. Go out and get this one. It is a can't put down read. I can't wait to see what book Prager writes next. I hope it's another baseball book.
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Rating: - Are you interested in the Brooklyn Dodgers? How about
the New York Giants? Do you remember them? Even better. The Echoing Green is a book or should I say cd you'll enjoy. I understand the book may be a tough slough, but listening to it was enjoyable. Joshua Prager confronts one of baseball's historical moments. Bobby Thompson hit a ninth inning homerun off pitcher Ralph Branca to give the Giants a win over the Dodgers & propel them into the 1951 World Series. Mr. Prager certainly takes his time about it. He ranges far & wide going back in time ... Read More
Rating:  - The Echoing Green
The book is very interesting because of the subject, but it is over-written, and the writing gets in the way of the material.
Rating: - COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN
The Echoing Green is simply the best baseball book I have ever come across. As a lover of the game and baseball lore, I simply couldn't put this book down once I started reading it. Detail after detail about the events leading up to and after "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" is beautifully described in Mr. Prager's book. It is obvious to any reader that this book was not written over night. Prager leaves no stone unturned as he tracked down some 20 odd living players from the NY Giants and others ... Read More
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