The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World Audiobook (Free)

The Untold Tale Behind The Shot Heard ACROSS THE World

The 1951 regular baseball season was as effective as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with simply three outs to look in their third and last playoff game. Not once in the 278 preceding playoff and Globe Series games experienced a team get over a three-run deficit in the ninth inning. But NY rallied, with 3:58 pm on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson strike a home elope Ralph Branca. The Giants earned the pennant. The about The Echoing Green: The Untold Tale of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the Globe Echoing Green follows the reverberations of this one moment through the West Wing from the White colored House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse where, in Harlem, a home run forever switched hitter and pitcher to hero and goat.

It was also in that center-field stop of concrete where, after a home run, one of the Giant’s coaches tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The spyglass would remain undiscovered until 2001 when Joshua Prager laid bare on the front page of the Wall Street Journal a Giant key: from July 20, 1951, through the very day of the legendary game, the orange and black stole the finger signals of opposing catchers. The Echoing Green areas that revelation at the heart of a larger story, recreating in luxurious fine detail the 1951 pennant competition and illuminating as never before the impact of both one minute and a long-guarded key around the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca.

A wonderfully evocative image of the fantastic American pastime, The Echoing Green is definitely baseball history, social history and biography — an amazing tale from any position.