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The Shot Heard 'Round the World. Giants win the pennant on the back of Thomson's home run. Perhaps the most memorable moment in baseball history.
Fifty years after the Miracle at Coogan’s Bluff, as Thomson’s home run is often nicknamed, a Wall Street Journal article revealed that the Giants’ big comeback of 1951—and perhaps Thomson’s home run—was the result of a complex scheme the Giants had developed to steal signs and give their batters a heads-up on what kind of pitch was coming. Many surviving members of the 1951 Giants said, for the most part, that the story was true; Ralph Branca had heard about it as early as 1954, but didn’t squawk about it since it wasn’t going to change anything about 1951. When Thomson, a kind old man nearing 80 years of age, was asked by the Journal whether he was tipped off before his historic home run against Branca, it was reported that he was initially evasive and roundabout in response.
Thomson finally said: “My answer is no.”
01/02/2018
On April 8, 1965, just in time for a new season of Major League Baseball, The Munsters aired one of its most famed episodes, titled, "Herman The Rookie." It featured a guest appearance by Hall of Famer Leo Durocher, who was a coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers at the time of filming. Clad in street clothes, Durocher is seen supervising a tryout by Herman Munster, the patriarch of the Munster clan, who is attempting to showcase his prodigious hitting abilities at a local ballpark.
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