Praying for Gil Hodges

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Pulitzer-winning Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant turns his attention from Washington to Brooklyn in his new memoir, Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Music: Field of Dreams Soundtrack
Composed by James Horner
Track 12: The Place Where Dreams Come True
Track 5: Old Ball Players

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