Scottish-born Bobby Thomson played 1,779 Major League baseball games in a career spanning fifteen seasons. During that stretch, he was a threetime All-Star and posted a steady lifetime batting average of .270 while smacking 264 home runs. These statistics, however, have long ago been relegated to trivia fodder – not by the fickle nature of fame or the vestiges of time, but rather due to one colossal swing of the bat. On 3 October 1951, at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Thomson hit a game-winning home run for the New York Giants to capture the National League pennant over
