The Echoing Green by Joshua Prager

The Echoing Green by Joshua Prager

This is the untold story 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.

Joshua Prager has contributed to publications such as Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Echoing Green (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year) and lives in New Jersey. He was a Harvard Nieman Fellow.

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ISBN 13	9780375713071
ISBN 10	0375713077
Title	The Echoing Green
Author	Joshua Prager
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-03-11
Number of pages	544
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