CNNSI.com MLB Post Season 2002 MLB Post Season 2002


 

Heroes of October

"The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" At the Polo Grounds on Oct. 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants hit a playoff-winning three-run homer off Brooklyn Dodgers hurler Ralph Branca. "The Shot Heard Round the World" vaulted the Giants into the World Series.

THUMBNAILS   |   NEXT

Photograph by AP
 


 
CNNSI