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"shot heard round the world"

Posted by Eric Neel on September 13, 2001

Can anyone tell me the first time the phrase "shot heard round the world" was used to describe Bobby Thomson's famous home run in 1951? How did the phrase, which had earlier described the beginning of the revolutionary war, come to describe the home run?

  • Bruce Kahl 09/14/01

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