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  <title>Pafko at the Wall: A Novella</title>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novella captures everything I love about baseball. Set in the 1951 &quot;Shot heard 'round the world&quot; Giants/Dodgers pennant game, the story drips with nostalgia for America's Pastime. DeLillo's imagery is so vivid, I felt like I was eating a hot dog at the ballpark on a warm summer day.<br/><br/>And the feeling I had while reading -- the simultaneous highs and lows, thrills and sorrows, wanting to puke your guts out because your team is down and then the absolute elation when your team stages a miracle bottom of the 9th comeback win... every baseball fan needs to read this. Especially now, in the dead of winter, when it doesn't seem that an afternoon at the ballpark could ever be possible again.<br/><br/>(58 days 'til Cubs opening day at the time of this review!)]]></body>
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