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The 1951 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the New York Giants, who had won the National League pennant in a thrilling three-game playoff with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the legendary home run by Bobby Thomson (the Shot Heard 'Round the World).
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The trade helps both clubs: Sain, 33, contributes to three consecutive World Series championships (1951–1953), while Burdette, 24, blossoms into a top hurler who wins 179 games in a Braves' uniform whose three complete-game victories lift the Milwaukee Braves to the 1957 World Series title over the Yankees themselves.
In the World Series, they defeated the New York Giants in 6 games. This year was noted for a "changing of the guard" for the Yankees, as it was Joe DiMaggio's final season [1] and Mickey Mantle's first. The 1951 season also marked the first year of Bob Sheppard's long tenure as Yankee Stadium's public address announcer.
The Shot Heard 'Round the World: Dotted line represents the approximate track of Thomson's game-winning line drive home run. In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL ...
The Yankees defeated the Giants, four games to two, capturing the 14th championship in franchise history, in the midst of a 5-year World Series winning streak. The 18th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 10, hosted by the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan , with the National League winning, 8–3.
The 1951 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series that extended Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1951 regular season to decide the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played on October 1, 2, and 3, 1951, between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers.
This home run, hit at 3:58 p.m. EST on October 3, 1951, came to be known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". The phrase shot heard 'round the world is from a classic poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson , originally used to refer to the first clash of the American Revolutionary War and since used to apply to other dramatic moments, military and otherwise.