Major League Baseball will webcast a replay the historic 1951 playoff game when the New York Giants stole the National League pennant from the Brooklyn Dodgers with a dramatic ninth-inning home run.
On Oct. 3 - the 50th anniversary of that game - MLB Radio will broadcast a re-creation of those nine innings that climaxed with Bobby Thomson's historic three-run blast off a Ralph Branca fastball that gave the Giants a 5-4 win and the National League pennant. Ernie Harwell, the man who actually called that so-called Shot Heard 'Round the World,
will deliver the re-creation on the MLB Web site.
Simulating the roar of the crowd in New York's Polo Grounds, the retrospective replay begins at 1:30 p.m. (ET) on Wednesday, concluding at 3:57 p.m., the exact moment that 34,320 fans watched the Thomson homer clear the left field wall of the Polo Grounds 50 years earlier.
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Fans can access the game on
MLB.com
on MLB Radio. The game will be archived on the site for on demand listening. - Richard Tedesco
