View Full Version : Shot heard round the world..........
greenberetTFS
08-17-2010, 17:05
I'm sure many of you heard about Bobby Thompson's, "Shot heard round the world". He died today.....:( But do any of you know who the pitcher was the threw that ball?
Big Teddy :munchin
...........But do any of you know who the pitcher was the threw that ball?
Big Teddy :munchin
Without "googling" it, I know it's in an episode of M*A*S*H.
Charles (David Ogden Stiers) mentions it.
Gonna have to pull out that episode and watch it. :D
greenberetTFS
08-17-2010, 18:13
Good........ :rolleyes: Anyone can qoogle it,try to get it the hard way,dig for it........;)
Big Teddy :munchin
ZonieDiver
08-17-2010, 18:18
It's lost in my brain, with tons of other stuff I won't ever remember again.
Meanwhile, the theme to "F Troop" comes to memory instantly:
"The end of the Civil War was near, when quite accidentally...."
What's up with that??????? :D
Good........ :rolleyes: Anyone can qoogle it,try to get it the hard way,dig for it........;)
Big Teddy :munchin
I was only 17 months old! I can't dig that deep. ;)
Pat
Hint: It was another New York team
Red Flag 1
08-17-2010, 19:19
Ralph Branca.
May the Staten Island Scot rest in peace.
Without "googling" it, I know it's in an episode of M*A*S*H.
Charles (David Ogden Stiers) mentions it.
Gonna have to pull out that episode and watch it. :D
Found it....But I see someone beat me to it. :p
Ralph Branca.
May the Staten Island Scot rest in peace.
From the M*A*S*H episode 204, of season 9, A War For All Seasons, as most of the camp is inside the mess hall or post-op, listening to the game being broadcast over the P.A. system, Charles is outside pacing back and forth, cheering on the Dodgers, the announcer states....."That's all for Don Newcombe, in to replace him is Ralph Branca." To which Winchester states...."Yea Branca the game is in the bag !!!!" .....then takes off his ball cap, spits in it, then places it back on his head and begins pacing again. :D
:munchin
Red Flag 1
08-17-2010, 19:50
Found it....But I see someone beat me to it. :p
From the M*A*S*H episode 204, of season 9, A War For All Seasons, as most of the camp is inside the mess hall or post-op, listening to the game being broadcast over the P.A. system, Charles is outside pacing back and forth, cheering on the Dodgers, the announcer states....."That's all for Don Newcombe, in to replace him is Ralph Branca." To which Winchester states...."Yea Branca the game is in the bag !!!!" .....then takes off his ball cap, spits in it, then places it back on his head and begins pacing again. :D
:munchin
FWIW, Thompson nailed a Branca pitch for a four bagger in game one of the playoff series; yet another Winchester ooops:D.
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greenberetTFS
08-19-2010, 13:05
FWIW, Thompson nailed a Branca pitch for a four bagger in game one of the playoff series; yet another Winchester ooops:D.
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RF 1,
I was listening to the game on the radio,never thought almost 60 years later I'd be asking it as a trivia question on this forum............... ;)
Big Teddy :munchin
Red Flag 1
08-19-2010, 14:44
RF 1,
I was listening to the game on the radio,never thought almost 60 years later I'd be asking it as a trivia question on this forum............... ;)
Big Teddy :munchin
I didn't hear the game; but growing up in New York, it was part of the collective knowing. Thompson and Branca actually had a bit of a comedy routine together after retiring. I recall seeing them in the Poconos once.
Great trivia Big Teddy!!
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