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shot heard round the world. Baseball fans ascribe a different meaning to this Ralph Waldo Emerson line describing the opening of the American Revolution. For half a century now they have remembered the words as a name for the home run New York Giant slugger Bobby Thomson hit in the ninth in- ning of the last game of the 1951 playoffs against the Dodgers to win the National League pennant. The “Jints” victory was dubbed “The Miracle of Coogan’s Bluff,” after the hill behind the Giant’s Polo Grounds stadium. |