There are plenty of titles in sports used to sum up historic games or events, but none more famous than Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard 'Round the World.”
When the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants found themselves tied at the end of the 1951 season, they entered into a three-game playoff to determine the winner of the NL pennant.
With the Giants trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the ninth in Game 3, there was little hope they would be heading to a World Series.
However, the Giants mounted a ninth-inning rally that saw the game rest in the hands of Bobby Thomson. With two runners on and the Giants trailing by two runs, Thomson hit a walk-off three-run home run that sealed the victory for the Giants and made a lasting impression in sports history
