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Card Sets Box Score Game Card (19) – PRFL0019
Box Score Game Card: PRFL0019
Card Date: October 3, 1951
Autograph(s): Card #1 – Bobby Thomson (D); Ralph Branca (D). Card #2 – Bobby Thomson (D); Ralph Blanca (D); Don Newcombe (D); Monte Irvin (D) – HOF.
Grade Value: V3
Significance of autograph (extremely valuable):
This is the greatest game ever played in MLB history … no ifs, ands, or buts. You really have to know your baseball here and the surrounding circumstances involving ‘‘The Game’!
First off, from a national interest, it brought back the Merle’s Blunder rematch game between the Cubs and Giants (1908). Secondly, Sal ‘The Barber’ Maglie (Giant) versus Don Newcombe (Dodger)—what a match-up. Thirdly, the teams, their players, the New York neighborhoods, you name it … Dodgers and Giants of all stripes hated each other. I mean, they hated each other. Lastly, ending in a Bobby Thomson three-run walk-off home run at the historic Polo Grounds … there’s no comparison … this is the granddaddy!
Note: This has always been known as the ‘Shot Heard Round the World‘ because US troops were stationed worldwide, listening to ‘The Game‘ via any radio contraption the troops could put together. Yeah, nothing like a ball game on the radio where you just let your imagination go, especially if you played baseball growing up … which the majority of kids in that era did.
Card # – Signatures Thomson and Branca the prize. Card #2—Add Newcombe and Monte.
Irvin… nice!