Shots Heard 'Round the World: Media, Sports and the Birth of the Dodgers/Giants Rivalry

The USC Annenberg Institute of Sports Media & Society recently hosted "Shots Heard 'Round the World: Media, Sports and the Birth of the Dodgers/Giants Rivalry". This event focused on a discussion of the New York baseball rivalries of the 1950's and the evolution of one of sports' most storied rivalries, a rivalry that has been the focus of some of the most important media moments of the last half century and that has been marred by some of the ugliest acts of violence in American sports.

Panelists include:

Jane Leavy: (New York Times best-selling author, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle, The End of America's Childhood and Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Story

Morris Eckhouse: Former executive director of SABR

Steven Travers: Author of numerous books including A Tale of Three Cities: The 1962 Baseball Season, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times

Bob Case: Long time baseball insider and personal manager to Casey Stengel

Chris Epting: Author of Los Angeles's Historic Ballparks