Polo Grounds Post Card
"Sing Goddess! The wrath of Bobby Thomson! The Trojan War had its Homer and Iliad, the birth of Rome its Virgil and Aeneid, the Black Death its Boccaccio and Decameron, Medieval Florence its Dante and Divine Comedy, Islam's Golden Age its Scheherazade and A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Samurai Japan its Lady Muraski and Tale of Genji, a day in 1904 Dublin its Joyce and Ulysses, the V2 Rocket its Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow. So it should be that baseball's greatest game—nay, the all and everything and nothing, the sublime ecstatic agony that is baseball—have its Gordon McLendon and his transcendent flight of verbal fancy on the afternoon of October 3, 1951."
Painting The Word Picture
2010 August: Shot Heard 'round the World
2011 April: Pafko at the Wall: A Novella
2011 May: Thomas Hill Ross - "An Evening with Bobby Thomson, 9/20/89"
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