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They won one each, and the Giants were 4-2 down in the final inning of the final game when Thomson stepped up. He faced pitcher Ralph Branca, whose role is as permanently etched into the story as Thomson's. cheap nike nfl jerseys The first pitch was a called-strike fastball. But Thomson hit the second and, as the Dodgers left-fielder, Andy Pafko, drifted back towards the wall, the ball sailed over his head into the seats for a three-run homer and an incredible 5-4 victory. "The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant!" exploded Hodges. Thomson and his side had done the impossible and appropriately, for an event that was to become folklore – the ball was never recovered, its whereabouts remain a mystery. That is where the fairy tale ended – the Giants lost the World Series 4-2 to the Yankees. The New York writer Red Smith said: "Now it is done. The art of fiction is dead. Only the impossible, the utterly fantastic, can be plausible again." And Thomson...

In 1951 New Yorkers knew they were at the centre of the world. So it hardly seemed hyperbolic that the dramatic home run hit by Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants baseball team to win the National League pennant from their crosstown rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers, cheap soccer jerseys would be dubbed "the shot heard round the world". The phrase came from Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem Concord Hymn, celebrating "the embattled farmers" of Massachusetts, whose firing on British soldiers had sparked the American revolution. Baseball's shot came off the bat of a player born in Glasgow. Thomson, who has died aged 86, nfl jerseys cheap was two when he moved from Scotland to Staten Island, New York, where his father, a cabinet-maker, had emigrated. Baseball became his passion, and he signed with the Giants straight from high school in 1942. Wartime service in the air force interrupted his career, but he joined the Giants in 1947. The 1951 season became known as the Mi...

The Giants won five world championships when they played in New York, but the move to the west coast in 1957 ended such trophy collecting. The San Francisco Giants have played in four World Series but are yet to win one. cheap packer jerseys For many years they could enjoy the individual batting glory of Barry Bonds, with his record-setting seven MVP awards and 762 home runs, including 73 in 2001, although he is now almost as well-known for drug allegations and long-running legal battles. The Rangers had never even won a post-season series until this year. cheap panthers jerseys But only 38 years of their half-century history have been spent in Texas, as the team were originally the Washington Senators. With delicious irony the Rangers reached their first World Series with Alex Rodriguez at bat for the Yankees. A-Rod was signed by the Rangers in 2001 on an eye-watering 10-year, $252m contract. At the time the club was owned by a venture capital billionaire, cheap patriots jerseys To...

As the post-season has progressed, and the Giants' gritty collective of homegrown youngsters and veteran rejects have scratched out improbable victory after improbable victory, cheap kobe jerseys there has been a growing sense around San Francisco that greater forces are at work here; that it is somehow pre-ordained the Giants will win the World Series for the first time since moving west from New York more than 50 years ago. One local radio host, Paul McCaffrey of KNBR, has been invoking the power of the "particles" and, this being the cradle of hippy civilisation, he has not been laughed out of town. The opposite, in fact. He's been talking about printing T-shirts. But if it is comforting for Giants fans to think they have the "particles" on their side, how much better must it now feel to have the numbers working for them too: 62% of Game One winners have gone on to win the World Series, including six of the past seven. So the Giants it is, then. It's...

Bizarrely, the Rangers' managers failed to warm up another pitcher until far too late, as Holland loaded the bases and walked home a run in 13 pitches. cheap jerseys walmart At last Holland was yanked and Mark Lowe took the mound, only to walk Juan Uribe for another run and give up a hit to Edgar Renteria for two more. Lowe then departed and Michael Kirkman came in, hanging a pitch over the plate that Aaron Rowand smacked for a triple, bringing in two more runs. Then Andres Torres batted Rowand in with a double.At this point Nolan Ryan could have brought himself on for all the difference it would have made. cheap jerseys website As it was the Rangers in desperation had Tommy Hunter, down to be the game four starter, throwing in the bullpen when Kirkman finally got the third out of the inning – 30 minutes, 28 balls, four walks, four hits and seven runs after the second out. Yet for the first six innings this game was more like we'd all been expectng in game one: a tight pitche...

Edgar Renteria hit a tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning as the San Francisco Giants won the World Series last night, beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 in a tense Game Five. cheap jerseys malaysia Tim Lincecum allowed only three hits over eight innings to help the Giants take the trophy home to San Francisco for the first time. It was an overdue victory. Willie Mays led the Giants to their previous crown in 1954, three years before they moved west. After that, they never quite got it done despite great players such as Barry Bonds, Juan Marichal and Willie McCovey."This buried a lot of bones – '62, '89, 2002," the Giants general manager, Brian Sabean, said, cheap jerseys online usa referring to losing World Series appearances. "This group deserved it, faithful from the beginning. We're proud and humbled by the achievement." Lincecum outduelled Cliff Lee in an every-pitch-matters match-up that was scoreless until Renteria hit a stunning three-run home...