Offered is a 1951 playoff game program to the October 1st opening game, at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, of the best-of-three series to decide the National League pennant. In the '51 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers held a 13-and-a-half game lead over the New York Giants in mid-August. The Giants, helped by some sign stealing involving a substitute player with binoculars in the Giants' center field clubhouse, tied the Dodgers for first place on the last day of the regular season and forced the best-of-three playoff. The program has 24 pages (including covers) and measures 6.6x10". The program cover includes an aerial view of Ebbets Field. In the game, the Giants defeated the Dodgers by 3-1. In an eerie foreshadowing of things to come in the third game, in this opener the Giants' Bobby Thomson hit a two-run home run off Ralph Branca, which Thomson would do again off Branca in Game 3 (a 3-run shot this time) to win the pennant for the Giants in "The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff." Jim Hearn went the distance to win Game 1 and Branca took the loss. The program is unscored. The included scorecard pages in the program include the printed prospective starting lineups along with each team's starting pitching core. Along with all the usual Dodgers players is a late season addition, an outfielder who was added to the Dodgers active roster, but never got into a game - the great NBA Hall of Fame guard of the Boston Celtics, Bill Sharman. The program is in excellent condition and makes an outstanding remembrance of baseball's greatest pennant playoff.