{"id":7491,"date":"2010-08-18T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T22:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2010-08-18T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T22:05:50","slug":"memories-of-the-shot-heard-round-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/memories-of-the-shot-heard-round-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of the Shot Heard Round the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect everyone my age with an interest in baseball knows where they were when Bobby Thomson hit his historic home run in 1951.\u00c2\u00a0 I was in my 11th<\/sup> grade physics class at South High School in Denver.\u00c2\u00a0 I was an avid Brooklyn Dodger fan growing up and listened to part of the game on the radio during lunch hour.\u00c2\u00a0 The Dodgers were ahead and when I arrived in physics class after lunch, my friend, Dave Gorham, who sat next to me, told me that the Dodgers had won which I was relieved to hear.<\/p>\n

After class, I sought out a radio to hear more of the details of the Dodger win only to discover that the Dodgers had not won.\u00c2\u00a0 I still remember the shock when I heard the news.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the second straight year that the Dodgers lost the pennant on the last day of the season.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I stuck with them and enjoyed their success the next five years when they captured the National League pennant four times and finally beat the Yankees in the World Series in 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suspect everyone my age with an interest in baseball knows where they were when Bobby Thomson hit his historic home run in 1951.\u00c2\u00a0 I was in my 11th grade physics class at South High School in Denver.\u00c2\u00a0 I was an avid Brooklyn Dodger fan growing up and listened to part of the game on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47,10037,386,10035,5315,532,10040,460,10042,10036,10039,1052,8321,10041,10038,6671,8505,10034,124,1051],"class_list":["post-7491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-thomson","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-dodger","tag-dodger-fan","tag-dodgers","tag-friend-dave","tag-game","tag-gorham","tag-grade-physics","tag-lunch-hour","tag-memories","tag-national-league-pennant","tag-next-five-years","tag-physics-class","tag-radio","tag-shock","tag-shot-heard-round-the-world","tag-world-series","tag-yankees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t