Shot heard round the world.

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Posted By: <b>Mike Jones</b><p>Does anybody know what happened to the actual baseball that Bobby Thomson hit to win the first game of the 1951 playoff game against the dodgers?

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Posted By: <b>Bill</b><p>it's never been located with any certainty

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Posted By: <b>Mike Jones</b><p>Thanks Bill.

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Posted By: <b>Greg Theberge</b><p>Oh.....THAT &quot;Shot Heard Round The World&quot;...<br><br>Thought maybe you were talking about the FIRST &quot;Shot Heard Round The World&quot; (Emerson, 1837) which is celebrating another anniversary in a week or so.<br><br>&quot;By the rude bridge that arched the flood, <br>Their flag to April's breeze unfurled; <br>Here once the embattled farmers stood, <br>And fired the shot heard 'round the world.&quot; <br><br><br><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/Browns2.jpg" alt="[linked image]"><br><br>the guy in the green coat is yours truly

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Posted By: <b>DJ</b><p>After Don DeLillo wrote his epic book which chronicled on a small level the whereabouts of the ball, I made it my mission to attempt to locate the famed sphere in a three month project that I would document for an article at the time for SCD (yuck!). I contacted roughly thirty people from the players themselves (Pafko and Thomson) to the Hall Of Fame to auction houses to authors (like DeLillo) and there is no way to put a history to that ball at this point. What I came up with is that the baseball was in the hands of a small boy who was detailed in a first hand account by someone sitting a few rows back and was described then, according to one Hall Of Fame document that I copied. That small boy is probably an older gentleman and that ball is probably sitting unmarked in a shoebox somewhere, after probably spending time in the mouth of a slobbering dog.<br><br>DJ