Iconic sports photos

Too easy.

Not a photo and hardly iconic outside of SE Virginia, but I recall being at this game and seeing this as a photo in the paper the next day. The sky was threatening but spectacular.

Ok. So maybe a little bias on the first one. A homerun slugger meets an Ivy league baseball captain who becomes a future president. The second.. well Jordan over Craig Ehlo..the "Last Dance" about the only new sports show on TV, that EVERYONE is talking about.

For RJM,

I was at the Bucky Bleeping Dent game. OK, so I’ll do one round of touché. Then we’ll get back to the subject at hand ...

This one is a little less known. Look at the scoreboard. Jim Bunning’s Mothers Day perfect game.

When I read the subject all I could think of was the Orr photo.  I'll add a couple:

YA Tittle when he knew it was over ...

Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile ...

So, you've captured a couple that I thought of immediately when I read the thread.   1980 USA hockey team beating Russia was the first to come to mind.  The greatest sports moment in my lifetime.  The second was Dave Roberts stealing second in ALCS. 

Additionally, I've added the greatest tennis match I've ever seen and that Butler inception with Seahawks on the one-yard line with a Super Bowl virtually in their pockets.

Bobby Thompson

 Joe DiMaggio

@TMM_Dad posted:

Not a photo and hardly iconic outside of SE Virginia, but I recall being at this game and seeing this as a photo in the paper the next day. The sky was threatening but spectacular.

Best ever!!

RJM's inclusion of Bobby Thomson's shot partners with the second photo: Andy Pafko at the wall (with apologies to Don DeLillo). Thomson and Pafko would later play together with the Milwaukee Braves and be roommates when the team was on the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3l_L-VJ3w

Fenway, I can't look at that Patriots/Seahawks interception photo without getting nauseous. 

@smokeminside posted:

Fenway, I can't look at that Patriots/Seahawks interception photo without getting nauseous. 

Very understandable, and very memorable.  Frankly, I don't know how Pete Carroll kept his job.   He's got to have some compromising pictures of somebody.

Brooks Robinson 1970 World Series

Ron Swoboda 1969 World Series

Bill Mazeroski 1960 World Series game winning homer 

Carl Yastrzemski all star game catch

Refgie Jackson three homer World Series game 1977

Mickey Owens passed ball 1941 World Series

Torii Hunter doesn’t catch David Ortiz’s playoff homer

Casey: "I am sorry kid I have to send you down the Kansas City".

Mickey: " I will return"!!!

Havlicek stoled the ball, it’s all over, it’s all over.

Never charge a pitcher and lead with your head.

I guess this is iconic when it comes to brawls

Just need to comment on the Orr photo.  I use that photo and a little video clip in the class I teach as we have a case on the Boston Garden. 

Moreover, son #1 used to be #4 when he was little in hockey and when asked why he would say (and this is NOT in Boston) "4 for Orr (but he did not say his Rs properly so it was more like fow fow ow)." 

Finally, I met the man/myth/legend a year and a half ago at a golf tournament in Cape Cod and was as nice as they come.  Got my own photo with him too!