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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ralph Branca and the Meaning of Life
  name:
    name part: Mitchell, Bob.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Much ink has been spilled on Ralph Branca, Bobby Thomson, and the famous "Miracle at Coogan's Bluff" pennant playoff game in October of 1951. The present work is a novel approach to the history and context of this venerated game, never before attempted in such terms. This book considers that Dodgers pitcher and that uniquely dramatic game as actual metaphors for the human condition. In this thought-provoking odyssey, the author unpeels the metaphorical layers of this baseball onion by discussing the profound psychological effects of winning and losing in America; the concepts of shame, hope, injustice, failure, and luck; and Branca as a conflicted and complex, flawed yet sympathetic Everyman. And, finally, by comparing Ralph's situation--surprisingly and revealingly--to similar "crimes and punishments" in world literature, from Biblical icons Adam and Job to the protagonists of Sophocles, Hawthorne, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Camus. This work of baseball history and analysis stands as the only endeavor of its kind, demonstrating the universality of America's game to the human condition.
  subject:
    topic: Baseball players
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Sports
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
  classification: GV865.B73 M58 2025
  classification: 796.357092
  identifier: 9781476657790 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1476657793
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKKRT
    record creation date: 250830
    record change date: 20251018172809.2
    record identifier: in00005666360
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng