PRAYING FOR GIL HODGES, THOMAS OLIPHANT, HARDBACK BOOK ORIGINAL

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“Very nice shape, very nice and clean, nice cover and pages, old store sticker on front cover.”
Country of Origin
United States
Type
Biography
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Regional Cuisine
American
Country
USA
Subject
Books on Collecting
Subjects
Sports
Age Level
Adults
Special Attributes
1st Edition
Era
1960s
ISBN
9780312317614
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312317611
ISBN-13
9780312317614
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45024656

Product Key Features

Book Title
Praying for Gil Hodges : A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Baseball / History, Baseball / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Author
Thomas Oliphant
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-040941
Reviews
Driving over a bridge on an Indiana highway named after Hodges, a star first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, sets off a chain of memories from the Dodgers' only World Series victory for Oliphant. His memoir's main narrative thread is his recollection of being allowed to skip school to watch Brooklyn take on the Yankees in the seventh game of the 1955 Series with his father, but the story takes a decidedly circuitous path; retellings of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line and other significant moments in Dodger history appear between stories of growing up in a small Manahattan apartment as the Oliphants coped with the long-term effects of illnesses his father contracted during WWII. The Pulitzer-winning columnist interviews the pitchers for both teams, broadcaster Vin Scully and other baseball fans of his generation. Although Oliphant spends much--perhaps too much--time discussing baseball's glory years, the more psersonal material distinguishes the memoir. At its, Driving over a bridge on an Indiana highway named after Hodges, a star first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, sets off a chain of memories from the Dodgers' only World Series victory for Oliphant.  His memoir's main narrative thread is his recollection of being allowed to skip school to watch Brooklyn take on the Yankees in the seventh game of the 1955 Series with his father, but the story takes a decidedly circuitous path; retellings of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color line and other significant moments in Dodger history appear between stories of growing up in a small Manahattan apartment as the Oliphants coped with the long-term effects of illnesses his father contracted during WWII.  The Pulitzer-winning columnist interviews the pitchers for both teams, broadcaster Vin Scully and other baseball fans of his generation.  Although Oliphant spends much--perhaps too much--time discussing baseball's glory years, the more psersonal material distinguishes the memoir.  At its best, this isn't a bok about baseball, but about a family that found solace and comfort in the sport while making their way through mid-century America.  Photos.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.357/64/0974723
Synopsis
"On a steamy hot Sunday, the Reverend Herbert Redmond was celebrating Mass at a church in Brooklyn, when he startled his congregation thus: "It's far too hot for a sermon. Keep the Commandments and say a prayer for Gil Hodges."" "Praying for Gil Hodges" is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, which has always been on the short list of great moments in baseball history. On a sunny, breezy October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn Dodgers won the world championship of baseball. For one hour and forty-four minutes, behind a gutsy, twenty-three-year-old kid left-hander from the iron-mining region of upstate New York named Johnny Podres, everything that had gone wrong before went gloriously right for a change. Until that afternoon, leaving out the war years, the Dodgers and their legions of fans had endured ten seasons during which they lost the World Series to the New York Yankees five times and lost the National League pennant on the final day of the season three times--- facts of history that give the famous cry of "Wait Till Next Year " its defiant meaning. Pitch by pitch and inning by inning, Thomas Oliphant re-creates a relentless melodrama that shows this final game in its true glory. As we move through the game, he builds a remarkable history of the hapless "Bums," exploring the Dodgers' status as a national team, based on their fabled history of near-triumphs and disasters that made them classic underdogs. He weaves into this brilliant recounting a winning memoir of his own family's story and their time together on that fateful day that the final game was played. This victory thrilled the national African-American community, still mired in the evils of segregation, who had erupted in joy at the arrival of Jackie Robinson eight years earlier and rooted unabashedly for this integrated team at a time when the country was thoroughly segregated. And it also thrilled a nine-year-old boy on the East Side of Manhattan in a loving, struggling family for whom the Dodgers were a rare source of the joys and symbols that bring families together through tough times. Every once in a while a book provides a certain view of America, and whether it is "The Greatest Generation," "Big Russ & Me, " or "Wait Till Next Year, "these works strike a chord with readers everywhere. "Praying for Gil Hodges" is such a book. Written with power and clarity, this is a brilliant work capturing the majesty of baseball, the issue of race in America, and the love that one young boy, his parents, and the borough of Brooklyn had for their team.
LC Classification Number
GV875.B7O55 2005

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