Pafko at the Wall: The Prologue to Underworld -- Don Delillo, Hardcover

"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 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.

Author: Don Delillo
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 9/29/2026
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.42 lbs
Size: 7.27" H x 5.23" L x 0.69" W
ISBN: 9781668227756

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