Joshua Prager

The Echoing Green

The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World

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This is the untold story of the secret scandal 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 Wollen… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-375-71307-1
EAN: 9780375713071
Produktnummer: 3169607
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 544 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D4.0 cm 568 g
Gewicht: 568

Über den Autor

Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years. He has three times been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Joshua was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2011 and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University in 2012. He was born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, grew up in New Jersey, and lives in New York.