For other people with the same name, see Robert Thomson (disambiguation).
Baseball player
Bobby Thomson
Thomson in 1951
Outfielder
Born:(1923-10-25)October 25, 1923 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Died: August 16, 2010(2010-08-16) (aged 86) Skidaway Island, Georgia, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 9, 1946, for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
July 17, 1960, for the Baltimore Orioles
MLB statistics
Batting average
.270
Home runs
264
Runs batted in
1,026
Teams
New York Giants (1946–1953)
Milwaukee Braves (1954–1957)
New York Giants (1957)
Chicago Cubs (1958–1959)
Boston Red Sox (1960)
Baltimore Orioles (1960)
Career highlights and awards
3× All-Star (1948, 1949, 1952)
Robert Brown Thomson (October 25, 1923 – August 16, 2010) was a Scottish-born American professional baseball player, nicknamed "the Staten Island Scot".[1] He was an outfielder and right-handed batter for the New York Giants (1946–53, 1957), Milwaukee Braves (1954–57), Chicago Cubs (1958–59), Boston Red Sox (1960), and Baltimore Orioles (1960). His pennant-winning three-run home run for the Giants in 1951 is popularly known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and is one of the most famous moments in baseball history. It overshadowed his other accomplishments, including eight 20-home-run seasons and three All-Star selections. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me", he said. "It may have been the best thing that ever happened to anybody."[2]
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San Francisco Giants. He is perhaps best remembered for his call of BobbyThomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World"—The Giants win the pennant! The Giants...
All-Star. In a 1951 playoff, Branca surrendered a walk-off home run to BobbyThomson of the New York Giants; the game-winning hit was known as the "Shot...
Retrieved September 23, 2015. Goldstein, Richard (August 17, 2010). "BobbyThomson Dies at 86; Hit Epic Home Run". The New York Times. Archived from the...
the car radio play the broadcast of the baseball playoff game won by BobbyThomson hitting the Shot Heard Round the World. This would place Sonny's death...
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by Charlie Bennett until he bowed to them. On October 3, 1951, after BobbyThomson hit the pennant-winning home run for the New York Giants in the ninth...
three-game playoff with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the legendary home run by BobbyThomson (the Shot Heard 'Round the World). In the Series, the Yankees showed...
to the game-winning walk-off home run by New York Giants outfielder BobbyThomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca to win the National League...
was relieved by Branca, who then gave up the game-winning home run to BobbyThomson. Whenever Erskine was asked what his best pitch was, he replied, "The...
2020, he hit his 30th home run in his 151st game. Yastrzemski joined BobbyThomson and Dave Kingman as the only other Giants to hit 30 home runs so quickly...
called "BobbyThomson at the Bat," which went unknown for over 60 years until the San Francisco Giants published it in 2012. It's about Thomson's famous...
won in dramatic fashion on a walk-off home run from the bat of Giant BobbyThomson, one of the most famous moments in the history of baseball, commemorated...
the 1951 home run by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman BobbyThomson known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and the defensive feat by...
were BobbyThomson (who was batting just .236) and Danny O'Connell (who was batting just .235). Wes Covington was the main replacement for Thomson in left...
"Green in for the Menace against Thomson". UFC.com. Retrieved 2014-07-11. Staff (2014-07-27). "Bobby Green defeats Josh Thomson". mmadecisions.com. Retrieved...
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