Wednesday's Sports in Brief (Yahoo Sports)

Ralph Branca, the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who gave up the home run dubbed the ''Shot Heard 'Round the World,'' has died at the age of 90. Son-in-law Bobby Valentine, a former major league manager, says Branca died at a nursing home in Rye, New York. The home run that Branca gave up on Oct. 3, 1951, became one of the most famous in baseball history.