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Passionate quest for 'Miracle Ball'

By Jim Wilkie
ESPN.com

Friday, July 17, 2009

Brian Biegel doesn't consider himself a sports memorabilia collector, but for 2½ years he undertook an exhaustive search for the home run ball hit by Bobby Thomson in the famous Shot Heard 'Round the World. What started as a quest to determine whether a ball his father, Jack, had bought at a thrift store could be the famous ball led Biegel on a personally rediscovering, life-changing journey to create a documentary and write the book "Miracle Ball." "There is certainly a large aspect ...

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