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'The Shot Heard 'Round the World'? We found Bobby Thomson's Scottish family to see how true that is

An MLB.com feature explores how Bobby Thomson's famous 1951 pennant-winning home run for the Brooklyn Dodgers resonated in his birthplace of Scotland. While not a household name in Scottish sports lore, the athlete was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 and visited a field named in his honor in Tranent.

Today, relatives including second cousins Iain and Ken Thomson maintain a distant connection to the historic athletic feat achieved by the slugger known stateside as the Staten Island Scot.

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