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After 50 Years, "Shot Heard `Round The World" Still A Defining Moment in Baseball.(Ralph Branca remembers fateful pitch)(Interview)
THE PITCH HAS BEEN MEMORIALized. The lives of the two players involved have been inexorably linked.
Some 50 years ago, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca threw a smoky fastball up and in to New York Giant Bobby Thomson, who turned on it like a farmer wielding a machete.
The Dodgers led 4-2 in the bottom of the ninth. Two Giants were on base when "The Shot Heard `Round the World" disappeared into the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds.
The Giants won the pennant. The Giants won the pennant.
October 3, 1951, is a frozen moment in baseball history.
Like Don Larsen's perfect game, Reggie Jackson's All-Star home run, Bill ...
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