The New York Giants: An Informal History of a Great Baseball Club

by Frank Graham

The final chapter of Frank Graham's dynamic history of the New York Giants is entitled "With One Swipe of His Bat." For sheer drama and a colossal slice of baseball legend, the core of that chapter cannot be topped--Bobby Thomson's "shot heard 'round the world," the three-run homer in the 1951 playoff series that determined that the Giants--not the Dodgers--would win the pennant.

Graham, of course, starts at the beginning, 1883,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324156
• ISBN13: 9780809324156
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"