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Andrew Pafko was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Milwaukee Braves. He batted and threw right-handed and played
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Pafko as a member of the Los Angeles Angels during the 1943 season.
A 1951 Bowman Gum trading card of Pafko.
In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds i
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…with perhaps the only "inside the glove" home run in baseball history. Pafko was in left field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but unable to catch the "shot heard round the world", Bobby Thomson's game-winning 3-run homer in the famous play-off game between the Giants and Dodgers in 1951. Don DeLillo's short story about the game…
The Shot Heard 'Round the World: Dotted line represents the approximate track of Thomson's game-winning line drive home run