Former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player Ralph Branca, right, pretends to …

AP File Photo, Oct. 3, 1991 | published: August 17, 2010

Former Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player Ralph Branca, right, pretends to choke former New York Giants player Bobby Thomson, on the 40th anniversary of Thomson’s Oct. 3, 1951, ninth-inning homer off Branca to win the National League pennant, in New York. Famed home-run hitter Bobby Thomson died Monday night. He was 86.