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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 in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL) pennant. Thomson's dramatic three-run homer came in the ninth inning of the decisive third game of a three-game playoff for the pennant in which the Giants trailed 4–1 entering the ninth and 4–2 with two runners on base at the time of Thomson's at-bat. The game was seen by millions of viewers across America and heard on radio by millions more, including thousands of American servicemen stationed in Korea listening on Armed Forces Radio. The dramatic victory to secure a pennant was intensified by the cross-town rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers and by a remarkable string of victories in the last weeks of the regular season by the Giants, who won 37 of their last 44 games to catch the first-place Dodgers and force a playoff series to decide the NL champion. The Giants' late-season rally and 2-to-1-game playoff victory, capped by Thomson's moment of triumph, are collectively known in baseball lore as "The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff", a descriptor coined by the legendary sports columnist Red Smith. The phrase "shot heard round the world" is from the 1837 poem "Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, about the first clash of the American Revolutionary War, and has been popularly applied to several dramatic historical moments.

Game 1 of the 1968 World Series, Cards' Ace Bob Gibson mowed down 17 Detroit Tigers, setting a Fall Classic record. Gibson had a 1.12 ERA in '68. Bob had 251 career wins and 255 complete games pitching for St. Louis. Gibson also had five-20 win seasons and 56 shutouts.

Babe Ruth, "The Sultan of Swat," was the image of the "Roaring 20s" in America. Ruth was lavish, fun and carefree after sending his early days in an orphanage where he picked up the game of baseball. Babe set the standard of his time for being a power hitter, belting 714 career home runs. A record that held until 1974.

Willie Mays hit 660 career home runs in his MLB career. Mays, along with Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider were the darlings of New York baseball in the 1950s with the Giants, Yankees and Dodgers. Mays is considered the greatest CF of all time and his signature catch in the 1954 World Series is his forever lasting image.

Orel Hershiser set the Major League Baseball record by pitching Orel Hershiser sets record with 59 scoreless innings | 09/29/1988 consecutive scoreless innings for the Los Angeles Dodgers during the historic 1988 regular season. Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton by a controversial 15-round unanimous decision on September 28, 1976, at Yankee Stadium to retain his heavyweight title.

Sept 27 This Date in Sports History: Lou Gehrig, the Iron Horse hits first of 493 career home runs for the NY Yankees, athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller set his first two official world records on September 27, 1921, at the Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U.) Nationals in the 100-meter and 150-yard freestyle events

Date: September 25, 1965 Satchel Paige tosses 3 scoreless inning for the KC A's Athletics owner Charles O. Finley brought Paige in for a promotion called "Satchel Paige Appreciation Night," though it also allowed Paige to log the major league service time required to qualify for his MLB pension.The Legend: Between innings, the ageless pitcher famously relaxed in a rocking chair in the bullpen while attended to by a "nurse" with a warming rub.The Exit: He left the game to a massive standing ovation from the crowd after facing 10 batters.... 1979 Angels win their first title... 1962 Sonny Liston KO's Floyd Patterson to earn Heavyweight title

The men's 100 meters at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea saw world champion Ben Johnson of Canada defeat defending Olympic champion Carl Lewis of the United States in a world record time of 9.79, breaking his own record of 9.83 that he had set at the 1987 World Championships in Rome. Two days later, Johnson was stripped of his gold medal and world record by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after he tested positive for stanozolol. The gold medal was then awarded to the original silver medalist Lewis, who had run 9.92. On 30 September 1989, following Johnson's admission to steroid use between 1981 and 1988, the IAAF rescinded his world record of 9.83 from the 1987 World Championship Final and stripped Johnson of his World Championship gold medal, which was also awarded to Lewis, who initially finished second. This made Lewis the first man to repeat as Olympic champion in the 100 metres (second, if Archie Hahn's 1906 Intercalated Games title is recognized). Lewis's 9.92 from the Olympic final was also recognized as the official world record, breaking the 9.93 mark that Calvin Smith had set in 1983 and Lewis had since equalled twice. Smith also participated in this race and originally finished fourth, but was elevated to third place and awarded the bronze medal, and Linford Christie of the United Kingdom, who originally won the bronze medal, was elevated to silver. It would take eleven years for an athlete to run a "clean" 9.79 in the 100 meters, which was accomplished by Maurice Greene in Athens, Greece in 1999.

Steven Norman Carlton (born December 22, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left-handed pitcher for six different teams from 1965 to 1988, most notably as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies with whom he won four Cy Young Awards as well as the 1980 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994 in his first year of eligibility. Nicknamed "Lefty", Carlton has the second-most lifetime strikeouts of any left-handed pitcher (4th overall), and the second-most lifetime wins of any left-handed pitcher (11th overall). He was the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards in a career. He held the lifetime strikeout record several times between 1982 and 1984, before his contemporary Nolan Ryan passed him. One of his most remarkable records was accounting for nearly half (46%) of his team's wins, when he won 27 games for the last-place (59–97) 1972 Phillies. He is the last National League pitcher to win 25 or more games in one season, as well as the last pitcher from any team to throw more than 300 innings in a seaso