Lest we forget: Ralph Branca

November 23, 2016

One of the last “Boys of Summer,” Branca probably knew how his obituary would begin immediately after he gave up “the shot heard round the world” to Bobby Thomson. This was the topic of Joshua Prager’s https://i2.wp.com/www.buckbokai.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Branca-after-the-shot.jpg The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World.

Here’s the New York Times‘ obituary by Richard Goldstein.

Branca published his memoirs, A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace, in 2011.

I wonder what he felt about the way he was portrayed by Hamish Linklater in the Jackie Robinson biopic, 42.

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