Brooklyn Dodgers star Andy Pafko dies at 92
MILWAUKEE— Andy Pafko, a four-time All-Star who played on the last Chicago Cubs team to reach the World Series and was the famously forlorn outfielder who watched Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” sail over the left-field wall during the 1951 National League playoff, has died. He was 92.
Pafko, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died Tuesday at a nursing home in Stevensville, Mich., said his nephew, Michael Nedoba.
A fan favorite known for his dogged play and diving catches, Pafko played with Jackie Robinson for theBrooklyn Dodgers in 1951, and with Hank Aaron as a Milwaukee Brave from 1954-59. But he is perhaps best remembered as being part of one of the most famous games in baseball history, when Thomson’s three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth gave the New York Giants the win in the decisive Game 3 of their NL playoff against the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds.