The 12 Most Iconic Moments in Baseball History
Some of these you have seen a thousand times in slow motion. Others survive mostly in a radio call.
1Babe Ruth's called shot
Game 3 of the 1932 World Series at Wrigley Field, where Ruth pointed at something and then hit it out.
2Jackie Robinson breaks the colour line
April 15, 1947 at Ebbets Field, the day Major League Baseball stopped being segregated.
3Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World
The 1951 pennant-winning home run at the Polo Grounds and the radio call that outlived it.
4Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth
Home run 715 in Atlanta in 1974, hit through years of hate mail and death threats.
5Carlton Fisk waves it fair
The 1975 World Series Game 6 home run, and the arm-waving that changed how baseball is filmed.
6Cal Ripken Jr. plays game 2,131
The 1995 night the ironman record fell and the game got a feel-good story it badly needed.
7The Red Sox come back from 3-0
The 2004 ALCS against the Yankees, the only time a team has recovered from that hole.
8The Cubs win the 2016 World Series
Game 7 in extra innings, ending a 108-year wait.
9Lou Gehrig's farewell speech
July 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium, the luckiest-man speech given by a dying man.
10Don Larsen's perfect game
The only perfect game in World Series history, thrown in 1956.
11Willie Mays' over-the-shoulder catch
The 1954 World Series grab at the Polo Grounds still known simply as The Catch.
12Roger Maris hits 61
The 1961 home run that passed Ruth's single-season record and got an asterisk for its trouble.
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