{"product_id":"pafko-at-the-wall-the-prologue-to-underworld-9781668227756","title":"Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There's a long drive.\u003cbr\u003e It's gonna be.\u003cbr\u003e I believe.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\u003cbr\u003e The Giants win the pennant.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the 75th 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668227756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933953454261,"sku":"9781668227756","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pafko-at-the-wall-the-prologue-to-underworld-9781668227756","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}