Shot heard round the world.

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Posted By: Mike Jones

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: Bill

it's never been located with any certainty

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Posted By: Mike Jones

Thanks Bill.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Oh.....THAT "Shot Heard Round The World"...

Thought maybe you were talking about the FIRST "Shot Heard Round The World" (Emerson, 1837) which is celebrating another anniversary in a week or so.

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard 'round the world."




the guy in the green coat is yours truly

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Posted By: DJ

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.

DJ