The Best Bobby Thomson Home Run Wall Street Journal References. And around the world at wsj.com. For nearly half a century since bobby thomson hit the home run that won the 1951 national league pennant for the new york giants, ralph branca, the brooklyn dodgers right.

31, the wall street journal published a page one story by joshua harris prager substantiating the longstanding rumor that bobby thomson’s famous “shot heard ‘round the. Thomson was a career.270 hitter with 264 home runs and 1,026 rbis in 1,779 games. In the 1990s, over 40 years after his famous home.