the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. Branca was a pallbearer at Jackie Robinson's funeral in October 1972. Branca was a contestant on Concentration starting in 1963, where he won 17 consecutive games. He appeared in Concentration'''s 1963 Challenge of Champions. In the 2012 movie, Parental Guidance, Branca made a cameo appearance as a judge during a scene involving an audition for a music school. During the scene, Billy Crystal's grandson takes to the stage and recites the radio broadcast of, "The Shot Heard Round the World." Branca was portrayed by Hamish Linklater in the 2013 film 42, a biographical sports drama about Robinson's career. Branca was the subject of the 2013 documentary "Branca's Pitch," produced by Andrew J. Muscato. Branca married Ann Mulvey, whose parents were part-owners of the Dodgers, in 1951, shortly after giving up the famous home run. Their daughter, Mary, married baseball player Bobby Valentine. Their other daughter, Patti, lives in Fort Myers, Florida. Branca released a memoir in 2011, titled A Moment in Time. On the morning of November 23, 2016, Branca died in a nursing home in Rye Brook, New York, at the age of 90. He was the last living member of the 1947 Dodgers baseball team. Branca was interred in Section 26 of Gate of Heaven Cemetery in suburban Westchester County. His grave is adjacent to Section 25, where Babe Ruth and Billy Martin are interred. See also List of select Italian-American Major League Baseball players References Further reading Branca, Ralph, with David Ritz. (2011). A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace. New York: Scribner. . Prager, Joshua. (2006). The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World''. New York: Pantheon Books. . External links 1926 births 2016 deaths American people of Italian descent American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Brooklyn Dodgers players Detroit Tigers players Major League Baseball pitchers Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Montreal Royals players National League All-Stars New York Yankees players NYU Violets baseball players NYU Violets men's basketball players Olean Oilers players Sportspeople from Mount Vernon, New York People from the Bronx Sportspeople from Brooklyn Baseball players from New York City St. Paul Saints (AA) players American men's basketball players American Roman Catholics Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York) Mount Vernon High School (New York) alumni