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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP138—009: Baseball Memories From Radio History—The Shot Heard Round The World
Description: 1951 seemed like the season it would all finally come together in Brooklyn. The Dodgers were led by Catcher Roy Campanella, First baseman Gil Hodges, Outfielder Duke Snider, and now second-baseman, Jackie Robinson.
Through one-hundred sixteen games, Brooklyn had seventy wins. On August 11th the New York Giants trailed the Dodgers in the standings by thirteen games.
Then, Giants manager Leo Durocher put coach Herman Franks in the Polo Grounds offices in the Giants’ clubhouse beyond center field. His objective was to steal opposing catchers’ signals. Franks used a telescope to relay signs through an electrical-buzzer system to the Giants’ bullpen. From t...