Greatest Walk-off • Buzzer-beating • Miracles

“… THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! …”

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Thomson hits the 'Shot Heard 'Round the World'

Greatest Walk-off • Buzzer-beating • Miracles

Sporting Event	Miracle Performance	Annotation
(MLB) Pennant Winner	Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World"!	"The Day That Brooklyn Died".
(NBA) Championship	Michael Jordan's "Final Shot"!	The greatest sportsman's grandest moment.
(Women's World) Cup Final	Brandi Chastain's "Winning Celebration"!	The exemplar of the Grand Tetons.
(NCAA Football) Hail-Flutie Game	Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary"!	"Flutie won the Heisman Trophy shortly afterward".
(Thoroughbred) Triple Crown	Secretariat "Wins the Belmont by 31 Lengths"!	"No other horse has ever broken 2:25 for 1½ miles on dirt".
(NCAA Division 1) Championship	Michael Jordan's "Jumper for the Win"!	MJ's first of many highlight moments.
(MLB) Perfect Game	Sandy Koufax "Strikes Out the Side in the Ninth"!	Selected in 1995 by the SABR as the greatest game ever pitched.
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