2001 Shot Heard 'Round the World Bobby Thomson Ralph Branca

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2001 Shot Heard 'Round the World Bobby Thomson Ralph Branca

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Max Carey

5 жыл бұрын

On the 50th anniversary of the 1951 NL Playoff, this excellent documentary is presented.

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@RandyDubin 4 жыл бұрын

RIP Bobby Thomson & Ralph Branca. 😭😭😭😭😭

@enniswhalen2428 4 жыл бұрын

R D - They BOTH handled this like real pros, all those years . . .

@moosecat Жыл бұрын

I was luck enough to get both of their autographs on the book that Bobby Thomson wrote, and gave it to my Dad, who was a Giants fan living in Brooklyn. Dad's gone, and I have the book. It is one my most treasured possessions.

@timothywilliams1359 Жыл бұрын

This was back in the days when Americans loved and respected each other, instead of calling each other fascists, racists, Nazis... etc.

@davidbarton1806 Жыл бұрын

Ya when we were a nation Not a corporation for ✡️

@tyguy2936 Ай бұрын

Black people would like a word...

@moosecat 3 жыл бұрын

My Dad (God rest his soul) grew up a Giants fan in Brooklyn. (No...he wasn't mentioned in this video.) I'm sure that my Dad was one of the happiest 11-year-olds in Brooklyn that day. Years later, I'm going to college in Brooklyn, and I spy a book titled "The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant!" It was written by Bobby Thomson, and Ralph Branca wrote the afterword. I buy it, and give it to my Dad for his birthday. Several years later, I'm in Washington State, and I find that Bobby and Ralph are going to be out here, signing autographs. A frantic phone call back East to Mom, and the book's on its way out here. I wasn't there for the signing, but both Bobby and Ralph signed it and personalized it to my Dad. The books gets regifted to Dad; he's over the moon. Dad's now been gone nearly eight years, and that book is one of my prized possessions.

@marcspardello1254 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful how baseball bonds father and son

@Steve52344 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcspardello1254 Absolutely. It did that for me on an early October afternoon in 1951. My father was watching the game on our new 12" b&w round screen Zenith. He went wild when Thomson hit the shot. I was 7 years old, but it was like the day I was born. I wrote a story about it titled "My Hero," published almost 20 years ago. Thomson read it and TELEPHONED ME!

@shawnyoung8752 Жыл бұрын

That is well put!!

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Awesome story. If I could be transplanted into a ballpark,there s 3 dates I’d pick… 10 3 ‘51 ,’shot heard round the World ‘in ‘51 in the mystical Polo Grounds 10 2 ‘78 Yanks Red Sox 1 game playoff in Boston, 10 1 ‘32 Game 3 of WS…sitting behind home plate in Chicago to see if Ruth really called his shot

@vinceniederman 4 ай бұрын

As a Phillies Fan Since 1995 This is One of My Favorite Baseball Documentaries and It’s Crazy That The Dodgers Blew The Lead To The Giants Late In The Season Before Both The Dodgers and The Giants Moved To California in 1958 Respectively!

@billhaywood3503 3 жыл бұрын

Ralph Branca --total class!! what he sould be remembered for is standing up for Jackie when that was literally a dangerous thing to do.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

And Jackie comforting Ralph when no one else had.

@MassAces1959 3 жыл бұрын

I never tire of this thrill. I have been a Giants fan for 70 years following the "Shot heard 'round the world."

@jayclarke5466 Жыл бұрын

Great doc…love these …Ghosts of Flatbush also legendary

@tommytwogloves16 9 ай бұрын

60 years from then we still talk about it!

@danieldayton3497 4 ай бұрын

My Dad was there.

@vinceniederman 2 жыл бұрын

One of My Favorite Baseball Documentaries As a Phillies Fan and I Love This Story So Much!

@choppy7593 2 жыл бұрын

What a great documentary! So well put together im like halfway between tears and speachlessness. Thanks Guys

@vinceniederman 2 жыл бұрын

This Baseball Documentary is One of My Favorites As a Phillies Fan!

@danieldayton3497 4 ай бұрын

My Dad was there I was home on Knightsbridge Rd in Great Neck age 10 months after seeing this incredible movie I can feel my father coming home that late afternoon October 3rd 1951 with a joyous look on his face greeting my mother.

@kevinmiller6380 Жыл бұрын

And six years later the Dodgers and Giants were playing their final seasons as New York based teams before their moves to California for the 1958 season.

@jayclarke5466 Жыл бұрын

This is the one season I wished I lived to see…there a few of them…’27,’41,55,61, but 1951 because of this game,end of DiMaggio beginning of Mays n Mantle, the impact of Jackie Robinson and black players now in the league, Ted Williamsn Red Sox getting no hit by Reynolds, Stan the Man…the 3 NY teams ALL critically involved in WS chase…before the demise of NYC…if I could do the Star Trek thing and go back …I d see this entire season.

@yankee2666 4 жыл бұрын

Baseball was once the glorious national pastime; today it's cellphones - sad, isn't it.

@mikeforte7585 2 жыл бұрын

Ur right....sadly it's a different world...baseball is definitely not what it was when I was growing up....(I'm an old man)

@kevinmiller6380 Жыл бұрын

@@mikeforte7585 Nope. Today, games routinely take more than three hours to play, whereas in the past, games took around two hours hours to play.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Nope avg game in 23 close to 50’s post season baseball

@TheHobieLandrithSociety 4 ай бұрын

The greatest moment in New York City sports history!

@SixFeetUndr101 5 жыл бұрын

I always felt bad for Mr. Branca.

@kevinmiller6380 Жыл бұрын

SixFeetUndr-Why? We all know the '51 Giants cheated by stealing opposing catcher's signs, not to mention Charlie Dressen running his pitchers into the ground, which also fueled Brooklyn's historic second half collapse. Ralph Branca is completely innocent.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Thomson owned him in Brooklyn and the Polo Grounds

@spencerstewart2172 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. I have been looking for this for a long time. In my humble opinion, the Giants/Dodgers rivalry is one of the best in all of sports.

@johnnyketchum7492 4 жыл бұрын

I think it's the best

@albundy6008 2 жыл бұрын

Tonight is game 5 in NLDS. Another in the Dodgers-Giants legacy of great post-season games.

@greghoyes1877 3 жыл бұрын

Very good documentary I like going through time it's awesome base ball was big in the 50s when you live in the big Apple I was not born in 50 but that decade was cool

@vinceniederman 2 жыл бұрын

The Fans Back Then Were Kinda Split at Times Before The Dodgers and The Giants Moved To California!

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Best decade for Baseball…only 8 teams in a league…very very very hard to make it to MLB

@davidbarton1806 Жыл бұрын

When this country truly was a nation 🇺🇲✊🏻

@larryprimeau5885 11 ай бұрын

my father told me about how he and my uncle travelled from Providence to NYC and went to the Polo Grounds to watch a game. he said they had a good time until someone in the upper deck dropped a beer on his head.

@duanedorman6134 10 ай бұрын

Branca handled this whole issue with complete class. He never felt sorry for himself. What a lesson in class. I have also read that Bobby Tomson never put his nose in bye air and acted like he was better than Branca

@wimbledon5353 3 жыл бұрын

The Giants Pennant is just as illegitimate as the 2017 Astros World Series (and this is coming from a big fan of that Astros core). People aren't hung up about this because it happened so long ago, but I think I think it deserves more attention...

@joet378 2 жыл бұрын

Does Preacher Roe's record of 22-3 in 1951 throwing the spitball (which was cheating) mean that if the Dodgers had won the pennant, they would also have been "illegitimate"? Just wondering?

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Giants “sign stealing “ was bogus and didn’t work or help. You had 2.5 sec to see the sign, signal the bullpen sitting 450 ft away and them cue u , where the outfield sloped down and was hard to see. That s a joke. Proof was once they instituted it , Giants hit dramatically worse at home vs the road. Where as the # s and system of Astros in 2017 and 2019 was real advantage and backed w stats improvement at home

@sportsmedia25 3 жыл бұрын

If you enjoyed this documentary, here's an actual interview I recorded of Bobby Thomson following a screening of the film in 2001 at the Giants' ballpark soundcloud.com/ryan-leong-1/bobby-thomson-interview

@sportsmedia25 4 жыл бұрын

42:38 Revelations of sign stealing. History repeats itself with the Astros and Red Sox nearly 70 years later

@yankee2666 4 жыл бұрын

Give it a rest, Shmuck.

@mikeforte7585 4 жыл бұрын

Sign stealing in baseball is like prostitution...it's been around since day one and always will be...some teams just get cought ...this game was before my time so I obviously didn't have a horse in the race..

@tomcrutcher3045 3 ай бұрын

Towards the end of the video there is a section that starts off with Ralph Branca in a TV show standing in front of a poster-sized photo of Bobby Thompson. Branca is singing a song about "Because of you...," but soon there is piano music to a different song that starts playing underneath the narration(Starts at about 53.05. Does anyone know the name of that tune?

@maxcarey6414 2 ай бұрын

We hope our viewers will identify it for you. We appreciate you watching.

@mysticakhenaton1701 6 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@neo-YoutubeStoleMyHandle Жыл бұрын

We all want to be "winners"...many are called but only the few make it...

@charlesdemelia6322 Жыл бұрын

So The Giants We’re Cheating. Bobby Thompson Knew A Fastball Was Coming. You Didn’t Give Up That Home Run After All Ralph R.I.P. 😊⚾️😊

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

He gave it up, and there s no real proof…Thomson hit like 5 Hrs that season off Branca including one 2 days earlier in Brooklyn… no sign stealing. Like Duke Snider said…we’re they stealing signs in Brklyn? Clem Labine in Gm 2 in Polo Grounds shut EM out 10-0… Ohhh and If Bobby Feller and Mo Rivera told ya what was coming..u couldn’t crack it… So stuff it

@seanmcaddle6121 Жыл бұрын

Bobby Thompson was with the Jersey City Giants before he got called up.

@YotesFan1980 3 жыл бұрын

The Giants Fan named Peter Magowan at the 10:57 mark was also their owner.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

McGowan was an owner much later…Stonehams owned and ruined the NY Giants

@tombaxter9996 3 жыл бұрын

Bobby said with Mueller breaking his ankle at 3rd just 2 pitches before, his focus was not on cheating, but on just not making an out.

@jakedasnake7703 3 жыл бұрын

The second most famous homerun in baseball history. Second to only bill mazeroskis walkoff agaisnt the Yankees.

@GGE47 2 жыл бұрын

This "Shot Heard Round the World" is still remembered today more than Bill Mazeroski's homerun in 1960. They didn't use the phrase "walkoff" back then either. The Yankees winning the ' 1951 World Series takes a back seat to the Bobby Thompson homerun to win the National League pennant which took the whole season to reach. Baseball historians still feel that way. Multiple divisions, wildcards, and 3 1/2 hour games along with big money have ruined baseball and other sports as well. This game only lasted 2: 28 minutes. Game 7 of the 1960 World Series only took 2: 36 minutes to play.

@albundy6008 2 жыл бұрын

Bucky Dent 1978 in Fenway Park game 163.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Thomson s shot IS STILL #1,.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

This game in ‘51 and Sox vs Yanks playoff games are the best games ever played in terms of impact, tension closeness and endings

@wiedep 5 жыл бұрын

By the 50's, Ebbets was rapidly becoming as decrepit as the Polo Grounds. Sal Yvars was another local player like Thompson and Branca, Sal is from Yonkers. The photo @ 22:44 was from the 1954 series, the Mays catch and the face in the window is Joe Garagiola. Joe's story - www.mlb.com/cut4/joe-garagiola-saw-willie-mays-the-catch-from-center-field-clubhouse/c-168760638

@Checkmate34851 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t like the blatant Dodgers bias in the documentary either

@wobblertv8083 2 жыл бұрын

Horrendous if your Dodgers fan ....but one of the Worlds greatest historic sporting moments .....Great the Dodgers won in 55 .

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Boooo.no Mantle in Game 7…changed the outcome…ask Podres

@rentslave Жыл бұрын

Because it was part of the regular season,weren't the roster limits at 40?

@michaelgreene4748 Жыл бұрын

Back in 1951, I couldn't say. I know after the 2021 season, the ML roster after September 1, the roster maximum was 28. I think the 2021 season was the first where the Minor Leagues played just about to the end of September...prior to 2020, the Minor League Baseball season ended on Labor Day. Of course, some of the stuff the minors tried out, like pitch counts, and reductions of times a pitcher can throw to first if a runner is on first is now part of the major leagues...some of those things have created a reduced time, for the most part(the 4/16/2023 Phillies at Reds game clocked in at over 3 hours, but with the Phillies scoring 14 runs, and in two innings left the bases loaded...since this is April, there still is a chance for a game at Wrigley Field where the score might look like an NFL game where the defenses forgot to show up...who knows what the game time might be for that game.

@donttalkpish2012 Жыл бұрын

The Staten Island scot

@mikeforte7585 2 жыл бұрын

Leo pressed all the right buttons in 51....but he was blamed for the Cubs collapse in 69 to the Mets...

@jakeg.7562 3 жыл бұрын

I will pose this somewhat trivial but still very odd question: When did Hodges' famous call change from, "The Giants WIN the pennant! The Giants WIN the pennant! The Giants WIN the pennant!" to "The Giants WON the pennant! The Giants WON the pennant! The Giants WON the pennant!"??? Will someone, anyone really (!), please listen carefully to Hodges as he narrates the historic call. Has it indeed changed? Because I truly believe that it has. And what I wish to know is: When did it change? And, more importantly, why?

@johnd3233 Жыл бұрын

It's win

@jtleon7086 Жыл бұрын

Oh no, not another one of those Mandela Effect hoaxes

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

What???

@billny33 2 жыл бұрын

If the Houston Astros of the last few years are seen publicly as a bunch of cheaters and their achievements are dubious at best, then shouldn't the Giants of the 50s be looked at the same way if we're being consistent? I know this is such a beautiful and tragic tale of old timey baseball that that's often what colors the narrative but the way the Giants stole signs isn't all that different from the way the Astros did. It's just the tech was better with the Astros. Do we know that the Giants weren't also doing that 3 years later when they beat Cleveland and won that World Series? What's the consensus on this?

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

No , because it was so inaccurate in 51…and the statistics show Giants hit worse at home both vs before they used it and vs hitting on the road Giants didn’t steal the pennant.Astros cheated for real

@scottodonnell7121 3 ай бұрын

If the Giants were stealing signs, why did they lose Game 2 10-0? And why were they losing 4-1 going into the 9th in Game 3? Not logical.

@rentslave 4 жыл бұрын

Strangely,the Yankees do great in the World Series when a Democrat is in office,going 20-3.If you omit the series' against the Cardinals,they're 20-1.In contrast,they're below .500 with a Republican,not winning since Eisenhower in 1958.

@yankee2666 4 жыл бұрын

You actually took the time to pay attention to that shit?

@mikeforte7585 4 жыл бұрын

@@yankee2666 thank u....great comment...

@jayclarke5466 Жыл бұрын

Does that mean as aNYY fan I gotta vote for Biden in 24?

@rentslave Жыл бұрын

@@jayclarke5466 Maybe you can vote for RFK if he stays away from hotel kitchens.

@wreckanchor Жыл бұрын

All this and the giants LOOSE the world serries to the Yankees. So didnt much matter really.

@jayclarke5466 7 ай бұрын

Nobody ‘’loosed”…’51 was a winner…but Giants DID lose to the Yanks in 6 games in a good Series that saw at least 6 HoF ers in that Series including DiMaggio, Berra, Mantle and Mays