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Homerun Photo (Bobby Thomson)
For a brief span in baseball’s Golden Age, Bobby Thomson was one of the most productive hitters in the game – a three-time National League All Star who averaged 27 home runs and 102 runs-batted-in from 1949 through 1953 – but one swing of the bat secured his place in history.
Thomson’s three-run, bottom-of-the-ninth homer lifted the New York Giants to a walk-off 5-4 victory over the rival Brooklyn Dodgers in the deciding game of their 1951 National League playoff. Christened “The Shot Heard Round the World” by newspaper headline writers, it remains the most celebrated home run of them all.