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Bobby Thomson

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I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!


— Bobby Thomson


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I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.


— Bobby Thomson


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In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.


— Bobby Thomson


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It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.


— Bobby Thomson


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There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.


— Bobby Thomson


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When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.


— Bobby Thomson


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"It was the best thing that ever happened to me" he later said. In 1949 Thomson had career bests in RBI (109) and batting average (. Thomson grew up on Staten Island in New York City and signed with the New York Giants for a $100 bonus right out of Curtis High School in 1942.

"It was the best thing that ever happened to me" he later said. His season-ending three-run home run for the Giants in 1951 known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" is one of the most famous moments in baseball history. Robert Brown "Bobby" Thomson (October 25 1923 – August 16 2010) was a Scottish-born American professional baseball player.

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