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

A dramatic rendering of one of the most famous moments in baseball, Bobby Thompson's 1951 ninth inning homerun that clinched the pennant for the New York Giants over their archrivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers, reveals that the Giants had been stealing the Dodger catchers' signals from their centerfield clubhouse. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.