For me, though it was way before my time, it's Ted Williams homering in his last at-bat. The last home game for a team that finished seventh in an eight team league, with only about 10,000 fans in attendance, he had two long fly balls that died on the warning track. He figured if those two didn't go out, nothing would. He finally did hit one out, to finish a season where he hit .316 with 29 home runs and a .451 OBP. Guys in their primes today won't put up those numbers, and he did it as a broken-down 42 year old.
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Signed 1953 Topps set: 264/274 (96.35 %)
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