Miracle Ball

"The Giants win the pennant!"

There’s a million dollar bounty on a baseball - the one that’s been missing ever since New York Giant legend Bobby Thomson hit it out of the Polo Grounds in 1951 to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a winner-take-all playoff game.

Brian Biegel says he knows where the ball is and he tells his part baseball, part detective story in a new book and a documentary film called “Miracle Ball: My Hunt for the Shot Heard ‘Round the World.”

Here & Now talked with Biegel and the man who hit that famous home run, Bobby Thomson.

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now, July 12th. Host: Robin Young.