Bobby Thomson hit the most famous home run in baseball history, the last-inning “Shot Heard Round the World” that vaulted the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers in their 1951 National League playoff.
The Curtis High School grad hit 263 home runs in a 15-year major-league career with the Giants, Braves, Cubs, Red Sox and Orioles, drove in 100 runs four times, and led the Giants in homers five years in a row.
Class of 1995
Did You Know?
Two days before he hit the “Shot heard Round the World,” Bobby Thomson hit a two-run homer to beat the Dodgers 3-1 in Game One of their three-game National League playoff, the country’s first nationally televised baseball game.
