Word: branca
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...characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home run was hit? "It's not about Thomson hitting the homer," an embarrassed Nick explains to some colleagues who have learned of his possession. "It's about Branca making the pitch. It's all about losing...
...imminence of Underworld has been talked and written about for months. By now nearly everyone who cares about contemporary literary fiction has heard how DeLillo got the inspiration for the novel. Intrigued by the hubbub back in 1991 surrounding the 40th anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and Bobby Thomson's subsequent home run--the so-called shot heard 'round the world that gave the New York Giants a playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times...
...year his sister took her vows was the year Joe, an 11-year-old New York Giants fan growing up in hostile Brooklyn, rushed out onto Avenue T to celebrate Bobby Thomson's home run off the Dodgers' Ralph Branca. That was also the year his brother Frank signed with the Boston Braves. Six years later, Frank was in the World Series with the Braves. Because their mother and father had separated, Frank, nine years older than Joe, became a surrogate father, paying Joe's way through St. Francis Prep and giving him his 1958 World Series ring. The ring...
...TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, Kari-Oca Indian Village, Rio, May 25-30 Some 400 Indian leaders from Brazil's 180 indigenous nations, as well as 200 representatives from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin America, Scandinavia, Asia and Russia, are gathering at a specially constructed village near the Pedra Branca Forest. Besides environmental issues, the agenda includes such topics as land rights and self- government. On May 30 the tribal leaders will celebrate the "Day of the White Man" with dance and rituals...
...Kelley (H), 2:15.26; 2. D. Conoscenti (C), 2:16.01; 3. M. Branca...