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1951 World Series at WorldSeries.com via MLB.com; 1951 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1951 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1951 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1951 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006.
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.
The 1951 New York Yankees season was the 49th season for the team. The team finished with a record of 98–56, winning their 18th pennant, finishing five games ahead of the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they defeated the New York Giants in 6 games.
It was also up 92% on Fox vs. 2023’s Game 4 (8.5 million viewers). The 2024 World Series opened on quite a high note, thanks to Freeman’s walk-off grand slam, which gave the Dodgers that first ...
On August 11, 1951 WCBS-TV in New York City televised the first baseball game (in which the Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers by the score of 8–4) in color.On October 1 of that year, NBC aired the first coast-to-coast baseball telecast as the Brooklyn Dodgers were beaten by the New York Giants in the first game of a playoff series by the score of 3–1 featuring Bobby Thomson's two-run ...
The postseason began with Game 1 of the 48th World Series on October 4 and ended with Game 6 on October 10. In the sixth iteration of this Subway Series World Series matchup, the Yankees defeated the Giants, four games to two, capturing the 14th championship in franchise history, and their third in a five-run World Series.
But one of the biggest advancements in the game's history took place on this day in 1951. It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball 64 years ago today, the 1st MLB game was broadcast in ...
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jack Flaherty sits in the dugout after being taken out of the game in the second inning against the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the baseball World Series, Wednesday ...