num_pages: 96
description:  "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.
language: English
title: Pafko at the Wall
titlecomplete: Pafko at the Wall
genres: New York, Contemporary, Novella, Novels, Americana, Historical Fiction, Sports, Literature, Fiction, Baseball
ratings_count: 1250
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Scribner