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	Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" is the term given to the walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant at 3:47 PM EST on October 3, 1951.
		The phrase "shot heard 'round the world" is from a classic poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, originally used to refer to the first clash of the American Revolutionary War and since used to apply to other dramatic moments, military and otherwise.
		The same day Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World, the future baseball Hall-of-Famer Dave Winfield was born in St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baseball's_Shot_Heard_'Round_the_World (1756 words)

	Shot heard 'round the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emerson used hyperbole as a rhetorical tool in the phrase "shot heard 'round the world." He wrote Concord Hymn for the dedication of a battle monument very close to his family's home, and the words are meant to emphasize that a critical event happened at this location that triggered something of global importance.
		It is often thought that firing the shot was meant to represent the beginning of a struggle for freedom against perceived tyranny, and the hearing represents the worldwide spread of this struggle with the American Revolution serving as an example.
		In baseball, it is used for Bobby Thomson's 1951 walk-off home run that clinched the National League pennant for the New York Giants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shot_heard_'round_the_world (664 words)

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	The Shot Heard 'Round The World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His shot struck friend Harry Whittington heavily enough to send him to the hospital, and to send the Capitol press into a tizzy.
		Most of the time, the shot is pretty well spent when it comes raining out of the sky from across a field.
		Accidents when hunting quail or pheasants can be more severe because the hunters walk through the field much closer together, and the closer to the muzzle of a shotgun, the greater the danger.
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	Ted Williams Pictures: san francisco giants memorabilia, new york yankees photos, baseball player photo, pictures of ...
		Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World" gave the Giants a 5-4 victory over their biggest rival and a trip to the World Series.
		The inscriptions "Shot Heard Round the World" and "10/3/51" are included making this collectible a unique find.
		Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, this hand-signed photograph of Yaz at the plate is handsomely framed and matted in Red Sox colors.
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	San Francisco Giants News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The man who cracked the "Shot Heard 'Round the World," now honored in a new documentary presented by HBO, displays a rare combination of pride and humility, humor and dignity over his accomplishment 50 years ago.
		It draws a crystal-clear portrait of a magical time in baseball, when three teams occupied New York and a citizen was required to define himself or herself as a Yankee fan, a Dodger fan or a Giant fan.
		As the credits roll, what one feels is not a sense of regret for a time since passed but a new appreciation for the passions that still exist, albeit in a different form, among those who love the game of baseball and in particular, who live and die with the fortunes of their chosen team.
	giants.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/sf/news/sf_news_story.jsp?article_id=sf_20010711_shot_thomson_news&team_id=sf (1983 words)

	The New York Times: This Day In Sports
		NEW YORK-In an electrifying finish to what long will be remembered as the most thrilling pennant campaign in history, Leo Durocher and his astounding never-say-die Giants wrenched victory from the jaws of defeat at the Polo Grounds today, vanquishing the Dodgers, 5 to 4, with a four-run splurge in the last half of the ninth.
		A three-run homer by Bobby Thomson that accounted for the final three tallies blasted the Dodgers right out of the World Series picture, and tomorrow afternoon at the Stadium it will be the Giants against Casey Stengel's American League champion Yankees in the opening clash of the world series.
		Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers is on the mound.
	www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/10.03.html (747 words)

	Shot Heard ‘Round the World: HBO: July 11,13, 15, 17,19 and 28th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Shot Heard ‘Round the World: HBO: July 11,13, 15, 17,19 and 28th
		Shot Heard ‘Round the World: HBO: July 11,13, 15, 17,19 and 28
		HBO Sports will revisit one of the most electrifying moments in baseball history with SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD, the extraordinary story of the 1951 National League baseball playoff battle between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, which was capped by Bobby Thompson's dramatic home run.
	members.aol.com /Jaybird926/hbo51.htm (87 words)

	Fisk's Homer, Willie's Catch and the Shot Heard Round the World: Classic Moments from Postseason Baseball, 1940-1996... ...
		Fisk's Homer, Willie's Catch and the Shot Heard Round the World: Classic Moments from Postseason Baseball, 1940-1996...
		The thrill of Willie Mays overhead catch against the Cleveland Indians or the agony of Bill Buckners error that denied Boston its first world championship in decades are as fresh today as they were when they occurred.
		The background of the players, the impact of the play on the postseason, and the lasting effect it had on those involved are fully covered.
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	Baseball Poetry : The Shot Heard Round the World by Rolf D. Ritschel on Baseball Almanac
		Baseball Poetry : The Shot Heard Round the World by Rolf D. Ritschel on Baseball Almanac
		The game of baseball is made up of moments that virtually stop time.
		The Shot Heard Round the World by Rolf D. Ritschel
	www.baseball-almanac.com /poetry/po_tshrtw.shtml (270 words)

	Baseball Toaster : Cub Town
		It was an incredibly poorly played game by all involved, with errors in the field, and the inability to throw strikes ruling the day - which has the effect of not only being aesthetically displeasing, but of extending the agony of it all, making the proceedings ugly, dull, and looooong.
		Because the baseball gods are cruel, and that which they giveth they can also taketh away, we'll be forced to wait another day for the resumption of hostilities.
		Baseball Toaster is a new site running on some experimental software called Fairpole.
	cubtown.baseballtoaster.com (4786 words)

	Top Ten
		Robert Krizek, assistant professor of communication and an expert on baseball and American culture, has spoken on the subject at the annual conference at the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He recently was interviewed by the St.
		I wasn't in the park when he hit it, but heard it on the radio while driving back from a class I teach at Boeing.
		In the 12th inning of the sixth game of the 1975 World Series, Carlton Fisk, catcher for the Boston Red Sox, hit a home run down the left field line to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6.
	www.slu.edu /publications/gc/v5-4/top_ten.shtml (1234 words)

	The Shot Heard Round The World Box Score by Baseball Almanac
		Baseball Almanac: Where What Happened Yesterday is Being Preserved Today
		Several baseball historians rank it as one of the greatest ever and
		pays salute to the legendary "Shot Heard Round The World" by providing game day details for you to examine yourself.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /boxscore/10031951.shtml (230 words)

	Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown
		Baseball is back, ready or not, and no doubt it will be weeks or months before some people will be ready.
		The country by the summer of 1918 was deep in the war, many baseball stars were in uniform, and many fans as well, while there was a general conviction that the war had years to go.
		But baseball fans by the millions did hear it, thanks to radio (in Europe and Asia it was on Armed Forces Radio), and thanks to Russ Hodges, the emotion of the moment was perfectly framed for a lasting memory.
	www.baseball1.com /carney/index.php?storyid=124 (4441 words)

	Baseball Digest: After 50 Years, "Shot Heard `Round The World" Still A Defining Moment in Baseball - Ralph Branca ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two Giants were on base when "The Shot Heard `Round the World" disappeared into the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds.
		The reason I haven't talked about it for 50 years is because I think it's the most memorable moment in baseball history, and I didn't want to tarnish that.
		That swing and that shot will be remembered long after the buzz about the buzzer has disappeared.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_10_60/ai_78033848 (1201 words)

	1951 Playoff - Shot Heard Round The World
		He signed his first baseball contract with the Giants in 1942 and missed three full seasons while in service in World War II.
		Though he watched his former team win the World Series in 1954, he gained some solace when he was dealt back to the Giants in 1957, appearing that year in the final game ever played at the Polo Grounds.
		Thomson was traded from Milwaukee to the Giants in June of 1957 for future Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst.
	baseballhalloffame.org /exhibits/online_exhibits/1951/thomson_bio.htm (449 words)

	SportsPickle.com - Pakistani Sheep Herder Claims He Didn’t Hear “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”
		U.S. Special Forces troops operating in Pakistan came across a Pakistani sheep herder last week who claimed he never heard about Bobby Thompson’s famous “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” in 1951, the home run that won the New York Giants the pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		He is the only known person alive at the time to have not known of this famous moment in baseball history.
		Pervez Atul Amin, 73, was 22 years old at the time of Thompson’s shot, but very sincerely maintains he never heard about.
	www.sportspickle.com /features/volume1/08212002-shot.html (234 words)

	Chillicothe Gazette - www.chillicothegazette.com - Chillicothe, OH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It ended the season for the Dodgers, sent Thompson and the Giants to the World Series and became known almost immediately as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World." The radio announcer screamed, the fans screamed.
		But the fact is, that one swing, that one instant it takes to connect with a baseball, affected the rest of the season in a profound way.
		It would have been baseball you see in the rookie leagues, players with big swings and plenty of power but no idea how to actually hit the ball.
	www.chillicothegazette.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050904/SPORTS/509040323/1006 (708 words)

	Baseball . The Capital of Baseball \| PBS
		The Capital of Baseball celebrates the glorious heyday of New York City baseball, where for ten straight years a local team always played in the World Series and almost always won, while growing postwar economic pressures send old teams in search of new cities.
		Bobby Thomson's "shot heard 'round the world" sets off fireworks at the Polo Grounds, as television carries the action coast-to-coast.
		After four decades of frustration, the Brooklyn Dodgers, sparked by Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, finally win their first World Series, only to be moved to a new city 3,000 miles away, leaving an empty shell in Flatbush — and an emptier spot in the soul of every Brooklyn fan.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/baseball/capital (215 words)

	Wilmette Baseball
		Baseball fans know it as the Golden Age of Baseball, highlighted by the most famous home run in baseball history, Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round the World” a three-run homer over a 279-foot fence in the Polo Grounds that won the 1951 National League pennant.
		Wilmette resident and Kirkland and Ellis attorney, John Bordes, a former professional baseball player who nearly made it to the Major Leagues with the Chicago White Sox, led the newly organized Wilmette Baseball Association in obtaining a charter from the Little League parent organization headquartered in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
		The venue was not particularly suitable for little league baseball, with games continually being held up as boys chased foul balls through the traffic of the busy neighboring street.
	www.wilmettebaseball.org /parks.html (1890 words)

	Smith: Schott To Hell (May 16 - May 22, 1996)
		Then the shot heard 'round the world was the opening salvo of the Revolutionary War and it was fired by some anonymous farmer, if Emerson is to be believed.
		Now the Schott heard 'round the world is Marge, owner of the Cincinnati Reds, and an army of revolutionaries both in and out of Baseball--but mostly out--is howling to get her fired for shooting off her mouth.
		The "this time" in the last sentence alludes to a 1993 episode in which Schott was suspended from professional baseball for making racist remarks, and forced to undergo sensitivity training.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/05-16-96/smith.htm (793 words)

	Sports: Thomson hits the shot heard 'round the world
		If you were a Giants or Dodgers fan on Oct. 3, 1951, you remember where you were at 3:57 p.m., as well as you remember where you were when you heard about Pearl Harbor.
		It is one of baseball's most electrifying moments, made more so by Hodges' hysteria.
		It came to be known as "the shot heard 'round the world" or "the Miracle of Coogan's Bluff." In that mystical instant, Branca and Thomson became as one, fused forever in our memories like Gallagher and Shean, Abbott and Costello, Johnson & Johnson.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121899/Sports/Thomson_hits_the_shot.shtml (535 words)

	AthlonSports.com - No. 2 Greatest Moment: The Shot Heard Round the World
		No single golf shot decides a tournament, but one shot essentially changed the course of the game itself.
		But as inflated as the attendance figures might have become in the intervening years, the impact of the shot was anything but.
		His chances looked hopeless Sunday until he suddenly pulled off one of the rarest and most amazing shots in golf by sinking a 220-yard spool wallop for a ``double eagle'' deuce on the 445 yard, par-five 15th hole.
	www.athlonsports.com /article.php3?story_id=1428 (599 words)

	Kodak Presents - Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments brought to you by The Sporting News
		The ball was smashed down the left field line just above the 315-foot sign and landed five rows deep in the stands.
		Thomson's home run gave the Giants a 5-4 victory over their biggest rival and a trip to the World Series.
		That, however, did not tarnish the moment that became one of the enduring reference points in sports history.
	tsn.sportingnews.com /baseball/25moments/1.html (919 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fans to pick baseball's greatest moment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There were also some noteworthy accomplishments left off the list that baseball might prefer not to remember, like the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the Messersmith decision in 1975 that paved the way for free agency for players and Pete Rose's ban from baseball.
		1951 — Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round The World", a homer with two on and two outs in the ninth inning on Oct. 3 gives the New York Giants a 5-4 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the NL pennant.
		Aaron's 715th homer was a three-run shot off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing in the fourth inning as the Braves won 7-4.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/02allstar/2002-07-09-moments.htm (1616 words)

	The Shot Heard Round the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But as the fifties began and African-American ballplayers were allowed to slowly integrate into baseball, the rivalry started to heat up.
		That was certainly true when in the bottom of the ninth, Alvin Dark hit a grounder that hit the tip of first baseman Gil Hodges' glove for a single.
		"The greatest pennant race and the greatest comeback in the history of baseball" had now suddenly transformed the rivalry into the epic dimensions it would continue to achieve in the next half century when the Giants and Dodgers got together to settle scores both new and old.
	members.aol.com /Jaybird926/1951race.htm (2080 words)

	Memo 2: The Shot Heard Round the World
		Memo 2: The Shot Heard Round the World
		It was the seventhand final game in the 1951 World Series, and the then New York Giants wereplayingthe then BrooklynDodgers.
		This activity did not onlygoon during the World Series but also the remaining 10 weeks of the1951 season.In the remaining 10 weeks they were instantly a new team,and they won enoughgames to compete in the World Series against Brooklyn.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~ks614898/esp/memo2.htm (430 words)

	1951 Playoff - Shot Heard Round The World
		1951 Playoff - Shot Heard Round The World
		The 156 games and the countless opportunities for victory along the way were forgotten in an instant.
		The bat, a Louisville Slugger model, is on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
	baseballhalloffame.org /exhibits/online_exhibits/1951/1951_story.htm (1015 words)

	Odds and Ends: Source for Concord and others as sites for "the shot"
		Golf's undisputed "shot heard round the world" came at the 1935 Masters Tournament when Gene Sarazen holed a 4-wood from 225 yards for a double-eagle 2 on the...
		The world of sports has its share of "shots heard 'round the world," too, though.
		Golf's undisputed "shot heard round the world" came at the 1935 Masters Tournament when Gene Sarazen holed a 4-wood from 225 yards for a double-eagle 2 on the 15th hole to tie Craig Wood.
	www.notmuch.com /Speak/BBS/Odds-And-Ends/980x9.html (1101 words)

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