# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-branca
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:12:09.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-branca"
name: "Ralph Branca"
slug: "ralph-branca"
description: "Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca, nicknamed \"Hawk\", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1944 through 1956. Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers (1953–1954), and New York Yankees (1954). He was a three-time All-Star. In a 1951 playoff, Branca surrendered a walk-off home run to Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants; the game-winning hit was known as the \"Shot Heard 'Round the World\"."
tagline: "American baseball player (1926–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_Branca_168.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-01-06"
deathDate: "2016-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.46
  momentum:             0.7011070110701106
  historical:           6.085973333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1025956/"
    handle:    "nm1025956"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ralphbranca.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Branca"
    title: "Ralph Branca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "رالف برانكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "رالف برانكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Branca"
    title: "Ralph Branca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Branca"
    title: "Ralph Branca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Branca"
    title: "Ralph Branca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3418235"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1202460"
    title: "Ralph Branca"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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