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Praying for Gil Hodges

A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Praying for Gil Hodges( )
Author: Oliphant, Thomas
ISBN:978-1-4299-0748-4
Publication Date:Apr 2007
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Imprint:Thomas Dunne Books
Book Format:Ebook
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Thomas Oliphant's Praying for Gil Hodges 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. 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."...
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