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Pafko at the wall. Then he's looking up. People thinking where's the ball. The scant delay, the stay in time that lasts a hairsbreadth. And Cotter standing in section 35 watching the ball come in his direction. He feels his body turn to smoke. He loses sight of the ball when it climbs above the overhang and he thinks it will land in the upper deck. But before he can smile or shout or bash his neighbor on the arm. Before the moment can overwhelm him, the ball appears again, stitches visibly spinning, that's how near it hits, banging an angle off a pillar -- hands flashing everywhere.

A topspin line drive. He tomahawked the pitch and the ball had topspin and dipped into the lower deck and there is Pafko at the 315 sign looking straight up with his right arm braced at the wall and a spate of paper coming down.

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The crew is whooping. They are answering the roof bangers by beating on the walls and ceilings of the booth. People climbing the dugout roofs and the crowd shaking in its own noise. Branca on the mound in a tormented slouch. He came with a fastball up, a pitch that's tailing in, and the guy's supposed to take it for a ball. Russ is shouting himself right out of his sore throat, out of every malady and pathology and complaint and all the pangs of growing up and every memory that is not tender.

Pafko is out of paper range by now, jogging toward the clubhouse. But the paper keeps falling. If the early paper waves were slightly hostile and mocking, and the middle waves a form of fan commonality, then this last demonstration has a softness, a selfness. It is coming down from all points, laundry tickets, envelopes swiped from the office, there are crushed cigarette packs and sticky wrap from ice-cream sandwiches, pages from memo pads and pocket calendars, they are throwing faded dollar bills, snapshots torn to pieces, ruffled paper swaddles for cupcakes, they are tearing up letters they've been carrying around for years pressed into their wallets, the residue of love affairs and college friendships, it is happy garbage now, the fans' intimate wish to be connected to the event, unendably, in the form of pocket litter, personal waste, a thing that carries a shadow of identity -- rolls of toilet tissue unbolting lyrically in streamers.

If his voice has an edge of disquiet it's because he has to get to the clubhouse to do interviews with players and coaches and team officials and the only way to get out there is to cross the length of the field on foot and he's already out of breath, out of words, and the crowd is growing over the walls. He sees Thomson carried by a phalanx of men, players and others -- the players have run for it, the players are dashing for the clubhouse -- and he sees Thomson riding off-balance on the shoulders of men who might take him right out of the ballpark and into the streets for a block party.

Billed on the tearaway cover as "in white collar jail with Don DeLillo"."Midnight in Dostoevsky"First published in New Yorker 30 November 2009 issue, pp. 68-77. On the web at: _fiction_delillo.

A story set at the Giants-Dodgers pennant game in 1951 at thePolo Grounds in New York. Pafko is the left fielder for the Dodgers,and at the end of the game he is left standing at the base ofthe wall as Bobby Thomson's home run goes into the lower deck.Watching in the stands are Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, JackieGleason, and others. This novella went on to form the prolog ofDeLillo's novel Underworld, witha new title "The Triumph of Death" and a few changesand additions. To make things more confusing, the Underworldversion was then released as a separate hardcover edition by Scribnerin 2001, with the original title of 'Pafko at the Wall,' presumablyto tie into the 50th anniversary of the event.

In keeping with this convergence, writers for the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune described Thomson's homer with a Cold War feel for the apocalyptic. Their vocabulary was explosive and dramatic. John Drebinger's front-page story in the Times said Thomson "blasted the Dodgers right out of the world series picture," and recounted the Giants' ninth-inning comeback as a "lash[ing] back with a fury that would not be denied" which culminated in Thomson's "blow of blows." Another front-page piece said "Bobby Thomson exploded" and "it was murder in Brooklyn." In the Herald Tribune, Rud Rennie said Thomson hit a "sudden, dramatic, breath-taking wallop," Dan Bloom marveled at the "sudden death he administered to the Dodgers," and another piece referred to the home run as a "mighty blow for freedom."

In the third inning of the first game, Tommy Corcoran, the Reds shortstop and captain, began frantically scratching with his spikes in the third base coaching area. Acting like a demonic chicken searching for grain ... Just below the surface Corcoran struck the lid of a small metal box. Opening the box exposed an "electric buzzer device" with protruding wires. It was thought that Chiles' cohort, Murphy, was stationed in the clubhouse behind the center field wall with some sort of pirate spyglass with which to steal the catcher's signs. Murphy, it was then assumed, would relay the information to Chiles' feet and he would verbally signal the batter as to whether the next pitch was to be a fastball or curve. be457b7860