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href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1944_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1944 Major League Baseball season">1944</a>–<a href="/wiki/1953_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1953 Major League Baseball season">1953</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1953_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1953 Major League Baseball season">1953</a>–<a href="/wiki/1954_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1954 Major League Baseball season">1954</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> (<a href="/wiki/1954_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1954 Major League Baseball season">1954</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1956_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1956 Major League Baseball season">1956</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li>3× <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star</a> (<a href="/wiki/1947_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1947 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1947</a>–<a href="/wiki/1949_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1949 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1949</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca</b> (January 6, 1926 – November 23, 2016), nicknamed "<b>Hawk</b>", was an American <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Pitcher" title="Pitcher">pitcher</a> who played 12 seasons in <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> (MLB), from 1944 through 1956. Branca played for the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (1944–1953, 1956), <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (1953–1954), and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> (1954).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a three-time <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star</a>. In a 1951 playoff, Branca surrendered a <a href="/wiki/Walk-off_home_run" title="Walk-off home run">walk-off home run</a> to <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Thomson" title="Bobby Thomson">Bobby Thomson</a> of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">New York Giants</a>; the game-winning hit was known as the "<a href="/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)" title="Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)">Shot Heard 'Round the World</a>". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ralph_Branca&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ralph Branca was born in <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_New_York" title="Mount Vernon, New York">Mount Vernon, New York</a>, as the fifteenth of 17 children.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, John Branca, was a <a href="/wiki/Tram" title="Tram">trolley car</a> conductor from Italy. His mother, Kati (née Berger), who was Jewish, immigrated to the United States in 1901 from Sandorf, Hungary (now <a href="/wiki/Prievaly" title="Prievaly">Prievaly</a>, Slovakia).<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His uncle Jozsef Berger died at the <a href="/wiki/Majdanek_concentration_camp" title="Majdanek concentration camp">Majdanek concentration camp</a>, and his maternal aunt Irma died in <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz concentration camp</a> in 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was raised Roman Catholic.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes1_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca graduated from <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon_High_School_(New_York)" title="Mount Vernon High School (New York)">A. B. Davis High School</a> and attended <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> (NYU) for one year, before he entered the big leagues. He played <a href="/wiki/College_baseball" title="College baseball">college baseball</a> and <a href="/wiki/College_basketball" title="College basketball">college basketball</a> for the <a href="/wiki/NYU_Violets" title="NYU Violets">NYU Violets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lohud_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lohud-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ralph_Branca&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Branca was exempted from military service during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, due to his asthma and a punctured eardrum.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Branca attended a tryout with the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> in 1943, the team signed him to a contract.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He debuted in the major leagues at age 18 on June 12, 1944, and put up a 3.04 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">earned run average</a> (ERA) in 109<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">2</span>⁄<span class="den">3</span></span> innings pitched in his rookie year. </p><p>On <a href="/wiki/Opening_Day" title="Opening Day">Opening Day</a> in 1947—which was also <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a>'s major league debut—Branca lined up on the field beside Robinson, while other players refused.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year, he had a 21–12 <a href="/wiki/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching)" title="Win–loss record (pitching)">win–loss record</a> and a 2.67 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">earned run average</a> (ERA) in 280 <a href="/wiki/Innings_pitched" title="Innings pitched">innings pitched</a>. He earned his first <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star</a> appearance and helped the Dodgers win the <a href="/wiki/National_League_pennant" class="mw-redirect" title="National League pennant">National League pennant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-espn_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-espn-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was second in the league in wins, innings pitched, and strikeouts (148), third in ERA, and sixth in won-lost percentage (.636).<sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Branca was also the starting pitcher in Game 1 of the <a href="/wiki/1947_World_Series" title="1947 World Series">1947 World Series</a>. </p><p>A three-time <a href="/wiki/MLB_All-Star_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="MLB All-Star Game">All-Star</a>, Branca won 80 games for the Dodgers with a career-high 21 wins in 1947. In 1948, he was ninth in the league in wins (14) and won–lost percentage (.609).<sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1949, he led the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> (NL) in won-lost percentage (.722).<sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1951, he was tenth in the NL in ERA (3.26).<sup id="cite_ref-baseball-reference1_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baseball-reference1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the final game of the best-of-three <a href="/wiki/1951_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1951 National League tie-breaker series">1951 National League tie-breaker series</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Polo_Grounds" title="Polo Grounds">Polo Grounds</a> against the crosstown rival <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(MLB)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (MLB)">New York Giants</a>, Branca entered the game in relief of <a href="/wiki/Don_Newcombe" title="Don Newcombe">Don Newcombe</a> in the bottom of the ninth inning with one out and <a href="/wiki/Whitey_Lockman" title="Whitey Lockman">Whitey Lockman</a> on second base and <a href="/wiki/Pinch_runner" title="Pinch runner">pinch runner</a> <a href="/wiki/Clint_Hartung" title="Clint Hartung">Clint Hartung</a> on third base and surrendered a <a href="/wiki/Walk-off_home_run" title="Walk-off home run">walk-off home run</a>, which became known as the "<a href="/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)" title="Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)">Shot Heard 'Round the World</a>" to <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Thomson" title="Bobby Thomson">Bobby Thomson</a>, giving the Giants the pennant.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to facing Thomson, Branca had been warming up in the bullpen with <a href="/wiki/Carl_Erskine" title="Carl Erskine">Carl Erskine</a>. Dodgers coach <a href="/wiki/Clyde_Sukeforth" title="Clyde Sukeforth">Clyde Sukeforth</a> noticed that Erskine was bouncing several curveballs in the dirt and instructed manager <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Dressen" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie Dressen">Charlie Dressen</a> to call on Branca—this despite Thomson having homered off Branca in Game 1.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg/220px-Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg/330px-Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg/440px-Bruce_Edwards_and_Ralph_Branca_1947.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1886" data-file-height="1616" /></a><figcaption>Branca (right) with Brooklyn Dodgers catcher <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_(baseball)" title="Bruce Edwards (baseball)">Bruce Edwards</a> (left), circa 1947.</figcaption></figure> <p>While it has been confirmed that the Giants executed a sign-stealing system, the lone dissenter is <a href="/wiki/Sal_Yvars" title="Sal Yvars">Sal Yvars</a>. The rest of the team, including Brooklyn centerfielder <a href="/wiki/Duke_Snider" title="Duke Snider">Duke Snider</a>, say there was "no playoff larceny" during the 3-game playoff, as the Commissioners Office was present, along with other dignitaries. <a href="/wiki/Al_Corwin" title="Al Corwin">Al Corwin</a>, another member of the pennant winning Giants, also reminded others that "not many guys relied on it, because that pitcher isn't standing still, he's in the middle of his windup." As the sign stealing was only possible at the <a href="/wiki/Polo_Grounds" title="Polo Grounds">Polo Grounds</a>, it would seem improbable. Thomson hit a game-winning home run in the first game at <a href="/wiki/Ebbets_Field" title="Ebbets Field">Ebbets Field</a> off Branca. In the second game at the Polo Grounds, rookie <a href="/wiki/Clem_Labine" title="Clem Labine">Clem Labine</a> pitched a shutout and the Dodgers won 10–0. As the Giants were losing in the top of the 9th, it would seem improbable that any kind of sign stealing was involved. This was all detailed in the <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> documentary 'Shot Heard Round the World'. Many surviving members of the 1951 Giants and Dodgers are interviewed, and Branca was the only one, other than Yvars, who believes Thomson took the sign. </p><p>The pursuit of the homerun ball in the stands and afterward is a major thematic element of Don DeLillo's novel "Underworld."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="This claim cites another Wikipedia article. Articles need references to reliable third-party sources. (May 2020)">circular reference</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>A back injury suffered during <a href="/wiki/Spring_training" title="Spring training">spring training</a> in 1952 limited Branca's effectiveness thereafter. Branca appeared in only 12 games for the Dodgers during the 1952 season.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the eighth inning of Game 7 of the <a href="/wiki/1952_World_Series" title="1952 World Series">1952 World Series</a> against the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, Branca was ejected from the dugout by home plate umpire <a href="/wiki/Larry_Goetz" title="Larry Goetz">Larry Goetz</a> for <a href="/wiki/Bench_jockey" class="mw-redirect" title="Bench jockey">bench jockeying</a>. Branca was only the second player in MLB history to be ejected from a World Series, and the first who was not actually in the game at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He did not make an appearance in the series.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca began the 1953 season with Brooklyn, but was claimed off <a href="/wiki/Waivers_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waivers (baseball)">waivers</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> on July 10, 1953. The Tigers released Branca in July 1954. After he pitched batting practice for the Yankees, the Yankees signed him, and used him in five games later in the season. Branca pitched for the <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Millers" title="Minneapolis Millers">Minneapolis Millers</a> in 1955, but was released due to ineffectiveness caused by an arm injury.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1956, Branca appeared at <a href="/wiki/Old_Timer%27s_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Timer's Day">Old Timer's Day</a> for the Yankees, believing his career was over. His pitching velocity returned, and he signed with the Dodgers for the last month of the season, making one appearance.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 12-year career, Branca posted an 88–68 record<sup id="cite_ref-espn_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-espn-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with 829 <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">strikeouts</a> and a 3.79 ERA in 1,484 <a href="/wiki/Innings_pitched" title="Innings pitched">innings pitched</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-westchestermagazine_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westchestermagazine-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ralph_Branca&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ralph_Branca_168.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ralph_Branca_168.JPG/220px-Ralph_Branca_168.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ralph_Branca_168.JPG/330px-Ralph_Branca_168.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ralph_Branca_168.JPG/440px-Ralph_Branca_168.JPG 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>Branca at <a href="/wiki/Westchester_Country_Club" title="Westchester Country Club">Westchester Country Club</a> in 2004</figcaption></figure> <p>Branca became friends with Thomson, a bond that lasted into each man's old age, including joint television and <a href="/wiki/Autograph_show" title="Autograph show">trade show</a> appearances.<sup id="cite_ref-lohud_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lohud-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-espn_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-espn-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Branca later learned from Detroit Tiger <a href="/wiki/Ted_Gray" title="Ted Gray">Ted Gray</a> that the Giants had <a href="/wiki/Sign_stealing" title="Sign stealing">stolen the signs</a> to the two pitches he threw Thomson. That rumor was confirmed in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> in 2001, when Giant <a href="/wiki/Sal_Yvars" title="Sal Yvars">Sal Yvars</a> admitted that he relayed to Thomson the stolen signs for Branca's fastballs.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Prager_(writer)" title="Joshua Prager (writer)">Joshua Prager</a> detailed the revelations in a book entitled <i>The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and The Shot Heard Round the World</i>. Thomson acknowledged to Prager that the Giants had stolen signs in 1951, but denied that he had foreknowledge of the pitch he hit off Branca for the pennant-winning home run. According to Branca, Thomson admitted to accepting the stolen signs during his first three at-bats of that game, but claimed that he did not do so in the final at-bat; Branca indicated that he did not believe Thomson's denials and remained convinced that Thomson was in fact tipped off on the fateful pitch.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca ran the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Assistance_Team" title="Baseball Assistance Team">Baseball Assistance Team</a> for seventeen years.<sup id="cite_ref-espn_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-espn-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca was a long time member of <a href="/wiki/Westchester_Country_Club" title="Westchester Country Club">Westchester Country Club</a>. He was born and raised in Mt. Vernon, New York where he was a member of the Westchester County Hall of Fame for approximately forty years. He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/National_Italian_American_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame">National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca was a pallbearer at <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a>'s funeral in October 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca was a contestant on <i><a href="/wiki/Concentration_(game_show)" title="Concentration (game show)">Concentration</a></i> starting in 1963, where he won 17 consecutive games.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He appeared in <i>Concentration'</i>s 1963 Challenge of Champions.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 2012 movie, <i><a href="/wiki/Parental_Guidance_(film)" title="Parental Guidance (film)">Parental Guidance</a>,</i> Branca made a cameo appearance as a judge during a scene involving an audition for a music school. During the scene, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a>'s grandson takes to the stage and recites the radio broadcast of, "The Shot Heard Round the World."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Branca was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Hamish_Linklater" title="Hamish Linklater">Hamish Linklater</a> in the 2013 film <i><a href="/wiki/42_(film)" title="42 (film)">42</a></i>, a biographical sports drama about Robinson's career.<sup id="cite_ref-westchestermagazine_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-westchestermagazine-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Branca was the subject of the 2013 documentary "Branca's Pitch," produced by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Muscato" title="Andrew Muscato">Andrew J. Muscato</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Branca married Ann Mulvey, whose parents were part-owners of the Dodgers, in 1951, shortly after giving up the famous home run.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their daughter, Mary, married baseball player <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Valentine" title="Bobby Valentine">Bobby Valentine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-globe_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globe-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their other daughter, Patti, lives in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Myers,_Florida" title="Fort Myers, Florida">Fort Myers, Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Branca released a memoir in 2011, titled <i>A Moment in Time</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-globe_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globe-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the morning of November 23, 2016, Branca died in a nursing home in Rye Brook, New York, at the age of 90. He was the last living member of the 1947 Dodgers baseball team.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Branca was interred in Section 26 of <a href="/wiki/Gate_of_Heaven_Cemetery_(Hawthorne,_New_York)" title="Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)">Gate of Heaven Cemetery</a> in suburban Westchester County. 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(2011). <i>A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace</i>. New York: Scribner. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-451-63687-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-451-63687-3">1-451-63687-3</a>.</li> <li>Prager, Joshua. (2006). <i>The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World</i>. New York: Pantheon Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-42154-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-42154-8">0-375-42154-8</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ralph_Branca&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 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