Ralph Branca, Who Gave Up ‘Shot Heard Round the World,’ Dies at 90 - The New York Times
Richard Goldstein
3, 1951, when, in a final game with the New York Giants to determine the National League championship, he served up Bobby Thomson’s electrifying (at least to Giants fans) home run — the “Shot Heard Round the World” — probably the most memorable in baseball history.
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