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.
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.
Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
Lexington and Concord: The Battle 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 Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World write by George C. Daughan. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A wonderful addition to the literature on the American Revolution, full of enlightening facts and figures." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review George C. Daughan’s magnificently detailed account of the battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much on economic concerns as political ones. When Massachusetts militiamen turned out in overwhelming numbers to fight the British, they believed they were fighting for their farms and livelihoods, as well as for liberty. In the eyes of many American colonists, Britain’s repressive measures were not simply an effort to reestablish political control of the colonies, but also a means to reduce the prosperous colonists to the serfdom Benjamin Franklin witnessed on his tour of Ireland and Scotland. Authoritative and thoroughly researched, Lexington and Concord is a “worthy resource for history buffs seeking a closer look at what drove the start of the American Revolution” (Booklist).
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 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 Minutemen and Their World
The Minutemen and Their 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 Minutemen and Their World write by Robert A. Gross. This book was released on 2011-04-01. The Minutemen and Their World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The “shot heard round the world” catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town—future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne—soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.
