75 years on, fans recall watching and listening to 'The Shot Heard 'Round the World' - MLB.com
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Illustration by Ben Marra / MLB.com On Oct. 3, 1951 -- 75 years ago tomorrow -- Jerry Austin was in the second grade at P. S. 75 in the South Bronx, counting the minutes until he could run from the classroom. The night before, he had seen a headline about a big game that would air on TV. That “big game” was the Brooklyn Dodgers taking on the New York Giants in the third and final game of a tiebreaker playoff for the National League pennant. There was only one problem: “We didn’t have a TV,” Austin told MLB.com. “I didn’t know anybody who had a TV. My mother or father then said, ‘There’s a TV at the five-and-dime on Westchester Avenue.’” Though he had first been taken on a trip to the Polo Grounds by his father a few years before, Austin was young enough that he didn’t quite understand what this contest was really all about. He just knew it was something important and he wanted to be a part of it. “When school ends, I run to the five-and-dime, which is in the complete opposite direction from where I lived, because I heard they had a small TV to see this big event,” Austin recalled.
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