An Appraisal: ‘Why Me?’ Echoed in Ralph Branca’s World, Even Before a Doomed Pitch
Photo Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951 after giving up a home run to Bobby Thomson that sent the New York Giants to the World Series. Credit Rogers Photo Archive, via Getty Images In 1902, a seamstress named Katherine Berger married a trolley-car conductor named John Branca and spent half of the next 26 years pregnant, giving birth 17 times. One of her children, Ralph […]