Ralph Branca was a famous 20th century American baseball pitcher.
In 2366, Doctor Paul Stubbs remembered a baseball game that Ralph Branca pitched in with the words "Lockman on first, Dark on second, Thomson at the plate, Branca on the mound." (TNG: "Evolution")
Stubbs was remembering the Shot Heard 'Round the World, an event that happened in the last game of the 1951 season when Branca's Brooklyn Dodgers were facing the New York Giants. His recollection of the the game was slightly inaccurate; since Dark was not on-base at the time of Thomson's home run, the line should have gone: "Lockman on second, Hartung on third, Thomson at the plate, Branca on the mound." [1]
External links[]
- Ralph Branca at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Ralph Branca at Wikipedia