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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World.(Book review)
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March 22, 2008
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- Newman, Roberta
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Joshua Prager. The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World. New York: Pantheon, 2006. 498 pp. Cloth, $26.95.
Just when it seems as if all that could possibly be said about "the shot heard round the world" has, indeed, been said, Joshua Prager offers substantial new evidence that the New York Giants' late season surge, culminating in Bobby Thomson's home run against the Dodgers' Ralph Branca on October 3,1951, was mechanically enhanced. In The Echoing Green, Prager, a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal, documents the way in which the Giants, under the direction of their irascible and, in this case ...