On October 3, 1951 – at 3:58 p.m., for benefit of a real die hards – Bobby Thompson hit a home run off pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City that gave the New York Giants a 5-4 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League’s pennant playoff series that gave the Giants the pennant. It is considered by many as one of the most famous single events in U.S. Major League Baseball history. The term used to describe the event, with “shot” a slang word for home run, relates to the classic poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson that originally referred to the first battle of the American Revolution.