It was a prominent passenger during one of baseball's most famous victory laps, but it disappeared in the celebration that followed. It was later displayed on a nail in a Las Vegas apartment, offered ...

Bobby Thomson died last week, and Roger Clemens was indicted. No juxtaposition could better capture the way we used to feel about our sports heroes, and the way we feel about them now. Clemens is just ...

When a home run is commonly known by a nickname, you know it was huge. This one is known simply as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" -- and it is arguably the most famous homer in major-league history ...

The New York Giants really had no business contending for the pennant as the calendar turned to October 1951.

Bobby Thomson, the New York Giants third baseman who clinched his team a spot in the 1951 World Series because of famous "The Shot Heard 'Round the World," died at home in Savannah Monday night.

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