THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
Today is the anniversary of Bobby Thompson's famous home run. This morning on XM 175, Mark Patrick and Buck Martinez interviewed Joshua Prager, best known in baseball circles for his writings on the sign-stealing shenanigans leading up to that at-bat. At his website you can listen to three radio calls of the historic dinger, including the Russ Hodges call that we all know. Gordon McClendon called it this way: "I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say." Had he come up with something, he still wouldn't be famous today, because "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" is pretty hard to top.
1 comment:
I had never heard Red Barber or the other call of this game. You'd think someo baseball show would have played it for the novelty.
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