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,...