willie mays was on deck when bobby Thomson hit the shot heard round the world. cliff smith
Bobby Thomson
The Battle at Lexington and Concord. Whoever fired first at Lexington was called the shot heard round the world.
the shot heard round the world
That phrase came from a poem by Longfellow
on April 19, 1775,
Bobby Thomson
The rookie, who would some day be a baseball icon was Willie Mays.
Bobby Thompson of the San Fransisco Giants.
He was born on Oct. 11, 1951, one week after Bobby Thomson won the pennant for the New York Giants with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World."
The most famous call of Thomson's 1951 pennant-winning home run was by New York Giants radio broadcaster Russ Hodges, whose unforgettable cry was "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!"
It's from a line from "Concord Hymn," an 1836 poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the men who fought and died at Lexington and Concord as the Revolutionary War began in 1775. In baseball terms, "the shot heard round the world" refers to Bobby Thomson's dramatic 1951 playoff home run that enabled the New York Giants to win the National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Game 7 of the 1960 World Series has been noted to be one of the most exciting games in World Series history. The game was won by a spectacular walk-off home run by Pirate second baseman Bill Mazeroski but It was not the "shot heard around the World"The "Shot Heard Round the World" refers to the game ending home run hit by New York Giants Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the 1951 National League pennant.
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Miller, who was presented the 2010 Ford C. Frick Award for his contributions to baseball broadcasting, was born Oct. 11, 1951. That was one week after Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" sent the New York Giants to the 1951 World Series against the New York Yankees.
There was no player name Thomason in baseball. You may be referring to Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants, a Scottish born player who hit the home run in the playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the pennant for the Giants in what some sports writers referred to as the "shot heard 'round the world".
In 1775.
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