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Brooklyn Dogers fans were crushed 75 years ago today: hearts pulverized by the New York Giants. NPR's Scott Simon talks with George Hirsch who witnessed "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" in the flesh. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: With apologies to historians, Revolutionary War reenactors and the entire state of Massachusetts, a shot heard around the world happened 75 years ago today at the Polo Grounds in New York City.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)RUSS HODGES: One out, last of the ninth, Branca pitches. Bobby Thomson takes a strike called on... SIMON: The New York Giants had clawed their way back into the National League pennant race, going from 13 1/2 games out to a tie with their loathed rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers, forcing a three-game playoff to decide which team would face the Yankees in the World Series. In those days, it was always the damn Yankees. Game 1 - Giants. Game 2 - Dodgers. Game 3, bottom of the ninth, Dodgers up 4-2 and on the brink of winning the pennant when they call on pitcher Ralph Branca to close it out. Giants' Bobby Thomson at the plate, two men on base.

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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