Back in late March, we passed along the news that the cap Bobby Thomson was wearing when he hit perhaps the most famous home run in baseball history was being auctioned off, via online bidding. Well, that bidding has concluded, and the winning bid was a whopping $173,102 (SCP Auctions Thomson cap page).

The history behind the home run: Thomson's New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers ended the regular season tied after the Giants ran down the Dodgers from a jaw-dropping 13 1/2 game deficit. The two then played a three-game playoff series to determine which club would advance to the World Series. In Game 3 of the series, Thomson came to bat against Ralph Branca and represented the go-ahead run.

And here was the result, "The Shot Heard 'Round the World:" 



From the SCP Auctions description, here's how the cap came to be made available for auction:
Immediately after Thomson's pennant-clinching home run cleared the left-field wall, Davies, along with his son, Michael, jumped onto the field to join the throng of Giants players in the melee that greeted Thomson as he crossed home plate. Davies secured the cap right from Thomson's head moments before he was lifted up on the shoulders of his teammates. Davies can be identified in both film footage and press photographs of the event. 

The cap has been a cherished heirloom within the Davies family, and has also been prominently showcased for more than 28 years (1984-2012) at The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. as a centerpiece to the museum's “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” exhibit.
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