These are the three known calls of the most famous home run in MLB history. Thanks to Joshua Prager for having all 3 on his website and sharing them for all to enjoy. Everyone has heard the Hodges… call, a few the McLendon call, but I believe very few the Red Barber call. Enjoy!!
http://www.joshuaprager.com/books/echoing-green/audio-book/
More on the calls at wikipedia:

Several television and radio[14] broadcasters captured the moment for baseball fans in the New York City area and nationwide.[15] Some sources claim additional radio broadcasts were done by Al Helfer for the Mutual network, by Buck Canel and Felo Ramírez for a Spanish language network, and by Nat Allbright in a studio re-creation for the Dodgers’ secondary network in the South. Harry Caray was in the Giants’ radio booth with Hodges and may have also participated in the broadcast.[16][17]
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BY TOM EDWARDS
Found this at Sports Collectors Digest @
http://www.SPORTSCOLLECTORSDIGEST.COM

Thanks to NYGPS member Keith Remland for spotting it!!
Looks like a great site for collectors!! Happy Passover & Easter to you all!!

My interest in baseball memorabilia began shortly after a visit to Ebbets Field to see my hometown Brooklyn Dodgers play the Milwaukee Braves. Watching a team with rookie manager Walter Alston and players such as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider and Gil Hodges made it easy to become a fan of the game.
In those days, my collection consisted of baseball cards, yearbooks and magazines. Over the years, I have enjoyed adding tobacco cards, press pins, autographed baseballs, bats, lithographs, books, postcards and seats to my collection.
Of those, I would put the seats at the top of the list of memorabilia that provides the biggest fun factor. Having spent a lot of my youth at Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds, I set a goal years ago of adding seats from those classic ballparks to my collection.
In the 1980s, I saw an ad in a memorabilia publication for a row of three seats from the Polo Grounds. The owner lived about two hours from where my wife and I lived at the time, so we drove up to take a look. After a very brief negotiation, it was a done deal. One park down, two to go. Although I had those seats from the home of the New York Giants, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to add a row of four floor standing seats with the N.Y. logo on both ends, so that row was added to our sports room.
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