# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-thomson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:56:10.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-thomson"
name: "Bobby Thomson"
slug: "bobby-thomson"
description: "Robert Brown Thomson was an American professional baseball player, nicknamed \"the Staten Island Scot\". He was an outfielder and right-handed batter for the New York Giants, Milwaukee Braves (1954–57), Chicago Cubs (1958–59), Boston Red Sox (1960), and Baltimore Orioles (1960). His pennant-winning three-run home run for the Giants in 1951 is popularly known as the \"Shot Heard 'Round the World\", and is one of the most famous moments in baseball history. It overshadowed his other accomplishments, including eight 20-home-run seasons and three All-Star selections. \"It was the best thing that ever happened to me\", he said. \"It may have been the best thing that ever happened to anybody.\""
tagline: "Scottish-American baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bobby_Thomson_NY_Sunday_News_1950.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1923-10-25"
deathDate: "2010-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.24
  momentum:             0.1740341106856944
  historical:           5.971894666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "بابی تامسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A)"
    title: "بوبي تومسون (لاعب كرة قاعدة أمريكي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Thomson"
    title: "Bobby Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B4%E6%AF%94%C2%B7%E6%B9%AF%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "巴比·湯森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ボビー・トムソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B3%B4%EB%B9%84_%ED%86%B0%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "보비 톰슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4935641"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump