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11-25-2016, 06:29 PM
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Interestingly, despite his mild and gracious personality, he was ejected from a 1952 World Series game for bench jockeying.
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Sounds like Erskine wasn't up to the task so in went Branca. Not the best choice, but maybe the only one, as Thomson had hit Branca pretty good prior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Branca
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It wasn't generally known until years later that the Giants were stealing the signs. Afterwards, Thomson claimed he didn't get the signs on that last at bat, but Branca didn't believe him.
Don DeLillo's semi-fictional but pretty true to the action account of the game is stunning. He weaves together several story lines in addition to the game action including a kid from Harlem who comes up with the ball, Sinatra and Gleason, J. Edgar Hoover and the first Soviet H-bomb test, a Breughel painting, and Russ Hodges.
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