Ralph Branca, the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher most famous for giving up the home run which came to be known as "The Shot Heard `Round the World," has died at the age of 90. Former big league manager Bobby Valentine, who is Branca's son in law, announced the news on Twitter, saying that Branca died early this morning at a nursing home in Rye, New York. Though the homer Branca gave up to Bobby Thomson of the Giants in the 1951 NL playoff was always going to lead his obituary, it's a disservice to the man and his career to let that shot solely define him.
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