End Zone: They became instant legends
Published 2/24/2008 at NYDailyNews.com - Baseball
New York has been in love with the Big Play, with the iconic conqueror, ever since Bobby Thomson slammed the Shot Heard ?Round the World to win the 1951 pennant for the Giants - and steal it from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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