"Doesn't suck," Zig agrees.

[rich]

LA Dodgers announcer Vince Scully in an interview claimed that the
Brooklyn Dodger announcer Red Barber after the Thompson home run said
a pretty amazing thing--something along the lines that amidst the
joyous celebration of the giant fans and the despair of the dodgers,
for perspective think of of all those many families having lost sons
who would never be coming home again (speaking of Korea)--i cant find
evidence that he actually said that but I kinda hope its true.

p.s. and yes I think Pafko at the Wall is the best thing Delillo
wrote. it so reminds me of my Dad and his stories of being a baseball
fan at  that time and a life-long New Yorker

rich

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:03 PM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> The Shot Heard 'round the World was a momentous occassion on October 3,
> 1951, in the Polo Grounds, NYC. The Wikipedia article is pretty cool-
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_'Round_the_World_(baseball)
>
> Especially interesting is the article's detailing of the sportswriter Red
> Smith's lead in for his New York Herald Tribune recap the day after:
>
>     Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The
> art of fiction is dead.
>     Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the
> inexpressibly fantastic, can
>     ever be plausible again.
>
>