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 ...
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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.
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There have been a lot of good things written about baseball: Ring Lardner, Roger Angell, Stephen King, to name three inspired writers on the sport. Because of my love for the game, I have read a lot of the baseball literature over the decades. Pafko at the Wall (which doubles as the prologue to DeLillo's masterpiece Underworld) is the single best piece of baseball writing I have yet to come across. It's about the passion, the ability to weave a wondrous tale around an event that really happened, the gift of capturing "fan consciousness" in such a visceral way, the love of the grand old game, the personal touch of Hoover, Gleason, Sinatra and Shor sitting in the box seats, and on and on. DeLillo has hit the proverbial home run, just as Bobby Thomson did on that memorable autumn afternoon.