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The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World by Joshua Prager
Reviewed by Allen Hott
Great story for any baseball fan. But especially a great story for any fan of the Giants, Dodgers, Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca or the 1951 national league playoffs.
Prager has done a ton of research and really dug up some great side stories of the above teams, players, and incident. He has gone back quite a ways to explain how each of these participants came to be where they were on that memorable day in 1951.