Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/496606to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pafko at the Wall: A Novella Author: Don DeLillo Narrator: Billy Crudup, Zachary Levi, Tony Shalhoub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: '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 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.

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