The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! write by Bobby Thomson. This book was released on 2001-03. The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's been called "The Shot Heard Round the World," the miracle home run hit by Bobby Thomson that won the National League pennant for the Giants -- and is considered one of the most dramatic moments in baseball history. Now, in his own words, Bobby Thomson tells the complete story of that incredible event with fascinating details only he can provide.
The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant!
The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! write by Bobby Thomson. This book was released on 1992-04-01. The Giants Win the Pennant! the Giants Win the Pennant! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leo Durocher provides the foreword to this look at the amazing 1951 National League season that combines the reflections of such Dodger and Giant greats as Alvin Dark, Monty Irvin, Whitey Lockman, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, and Don Newcombe. Reprint.
Pafko at the Wall
Pafko at the Wall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pafko at the Wall write by Don DeLillo. This book was released on 2008-06-30. Pafko at the Wall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Miracle Ball
Miracle Ball - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miracle Ball write by Brian Biegel. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Miracle Ball available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nothing short of mind-blowing . . . Just amazing stuff"—Newsday "A fast-paced, fascinating tale that combines shoe leather, high-tech forensics and some healthy dollops of luck….Biegel makes a compelling case that he's solved the mystery…his book is a home run." – Associated Press October 3, 1951. Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson hit the most dramatic home run in the history of baseball. The moment occurred in the bottom of the ninth inning of a sudden-death playoff game between the New York Giants and their arch rivals from Brooklyn, the Dodgers. People across the nation watched on their new TV sets, and the home run became known as “the Shot Heard ’Round the World.” But after clearing the left-field wall, the central artifact of the play—the ball itself—inexplicably went missing. The mystery of what happened to the legendary baseball has remained unsolved for a half century. Until now. Miracle Ball is the gripping account of author Brian Biegel’s two-year effort to unravel the mystery that experts said could never be solved. A sports story for the ages, an engrossing mystery narrative, and a moving account of a man’s unbreakable bond with his family and of his struggles to save himself, Miracle Ball delivers both heart and headlines.
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
The Shot Heard 'Round the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shot Heard 'Round the World write by Phil Bildner. This book was released on 2010-09-30. The Shot Heard 'Round the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If you lived in Brooklyn in 1951, your life revolved around the Brooklyn Dodgers. Come summertime you bled Dodger blue. And it was in that summer of '51 that "Dem Bums" -- what we lovingly called our Dodgers -- caused their biggest stir of all. For the young Brooklyn Dodger fan in this story, the summer of 1951 was a summer for heroes. The Dodgers, with players like Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, and Clem Labine, faced off against the New York Giants in a pennant race that no one had seen the likes of and no one would ever forget. On October 2, 1951, the New York Giants of the borough of Brooklyn held its breath as the Dodgers faced the Giants for the third, tie-breaking game to determine which team would go on to play the Yankees in the World Series. More than just a story about baseball, this is a sweeping view of life in Brooklyn in the summer of 1951, from its streets, to its Cyclone, to its stadium. Phil Bildner pitches the ball and C. F. Payne hits a shot to be heard 'round the world giving this renowned story new life.
