false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172302168m/162497.jpg 162497 1 <P> <b> "There's a long drive. <BR> It's gonna be. <BR> I believe. <BR> The Giants win the pennant. <BR> The Giants win the pennant. <BR> The Giants win the pennant. <BR> The Giants win the pennant." <P> -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 </b> <P> 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. 156847 9 10 2001 Pafko at the Wall: A Novella total:178|5:94|4:48|3:27|2:5|1:4| 178 757 248 21 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 08:11:10 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 08:11:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 22:43:15 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:04:14 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 09:17:52 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 22:42:32 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Feb 09 15:22:06 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:22:12 -0800 2009
Looking forward to reading this while waiting for opening day. Possibly one I could read aloud to Aidan...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 13:23:19 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 13:49:24 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Sep 04 18:58:25 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 19:04:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 14:15:26 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 19:29:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 21 21:44:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 16:32:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Aug 23 14:24:03 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 14:49:51 -0700 2007 Underworld, where Pafko at the Wall originally appeared, is so vast—and all at once seedy, inspired, mean, and sweet—it makes you not want to write.

Pafko is the opposite. It's a novella. You can finish it on a long commute. You hit the last period of the last sentence and want to qu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 06:40:01 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 06:40:01 -0700 2007 Underworld and didn't know until later that it was also sold as a separate book. It among the best 60 pages I have ever read. It's about baseball and it makes you feel like a fan. The rush of the crowds, a kid sneaking into the stadium, J. Edgar Hoover's paranoia. And the boy who...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 18:30:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 18:30:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 02 09:52:43 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 09:56:33 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon May 21 08:03:33 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 08:33:10 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 16:06:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 15:52:48 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Aug 21 11:14:16 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 11:16:08 -0700 2007
This Novella was decidedly average. Maybe a little cooler for Giants fans. ]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 23 10:18:26 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 17:03:13 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Nov 14 12:04:03 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 12:22:03 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 11:04:47 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 11:06:11 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Wed May 02 12:11:43 -0700 2007 Mon May 07 17:22:05 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Aug 07 12:39:32 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 12:40:26 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=162497