The Shot Heard Round the World gave the Dodgers a one-way ticket to Sorrowville

10-3. Today in Sports History. The “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” (1951): Bobby Thomson hit one of the most famous home runs in baseball history—a three-run walk-off homer for the New York Giants, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers and winning the National League pennant. This moment remains iconic in baseball lore as “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.”

1951 was also the year Joe Biden first ran into a guy named Corn Pop. Biden, enforcing pool rules, tells Corn Pop to get off the diving board for not wearing a swim cap.