Does anybody know what happened to the actual baseball that Bobby Thomson hit to win the first game of the 1951 playoff game against the dodgers?

it's never been located with any certainty

Thanks Bill.

Oh.....THAT "Shot Heard Round The World"...

Thought maybe you were talking about the FIRST "Shot Heard Round The World" (Emerson, 1837) which is celebrating another anniversary in a week or so.

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard 'round the world."




the guy in the green coat is yours truly

After Don DeLillo wrote his epic book which chronicled on a small level the whereabouts of the ball, I made it my mission to attempt to locate the famed sphere in a three month project that I would document for an article at the time for SCD (yuck!). I contacted roughly thirty people from the players themselves (Pafko and Thomson) to the Hall Of Fame to auction houses to authors (like DeLillo) and there is no way to put a history to that ball at this point. What I came up with is that the baseball was in the hands of a small boy who was detailed in a first hand account by someone sitting a few rows back and was described then, according to one Hall Of Fame document that I copied. That small boy is probably an older gentleman and that ball is probably sitting unmarked in a shoebox somewhere, after probably spending time in the mouth of a slobbering dog.

DJ