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Bobby Thomson dead at 86 - ESPN.com
We've heard the frenzied call forever, echoing through baseball lore.
"The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"
Bobby Thomson, the man immortalized with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in 1951, died Monday night at his home in Savannah, Ga. He was 86 and had been in failing health for several years, the Fox & Weeks funeral home said Tuesday.
He was a good player, not a Hall of Famer. Yet on that October afternoon, with one swing, Thomson transformed a pennant race for one season into a baseball moment for the ages.
He hit perhaps the sport's most famous home run, connecting off Ralph Branca for a three-run drive in the bottom of the ninth inning that sent the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the decisive Game 3 of their National League playoff.
The drive into the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds and broadcaster Russ Hodges' ecstatic declaration -- four times shouting "the Giants win the pennant!" -- remain one of the signature moments in major league history.
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Rest In Peace, good sir, and thanks for a memory that will live on in baseball forever...
We've heard the frenzied call forever, echoing through baseball lore.
"The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"
Bobby Thomson, the man immortalized with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in 1951, died Monday night at his home in Savannah, Ga. He was 86 and had been in failing health for several years, the Fox & Weeks funeral home said Tuesday.
He was a good player, not a Hall of Famer. Yet on that October afternoon, with one swing, Thomson transformed a pennant race for one season into a baseball moment for the ages.
He hit perhaps the sport's most famous home run, connecting off Ralph Branca for a three-run drive in the bottom of the ninth inning that sent the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the decisive Game 3 of their National League playoff.
The drive into the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds and broadcaster Russ Hodges' ecstatic declaration -- four times shouting "the Giants win the pennant!" -- remain one of the signature moments in major league history.
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Rest In Peace, good sir, and thanks for a memory that will live on in baseball forever...
