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Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame Great Duke Snider Has Died
Sports Illustrated ^ | 2/27/2011

Posted on 02/27/2011 1:55:26 PM PST by My Favorite Headache

AP) -- Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder for the charmed "Boys of Summer" who helped the Dodgers bring their elusive and only World Series crown to Brooklyn, died early Sunday of what his family called natural causes. He was 84.

Snider died at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, Calif., according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which announced the death on behalf of the family.

"The Duke of Flatbush" hit .295 with 407 career home runs, played in the World Series six times and won two titles. But the eight-time All-Star was defined by much more than his stats - he was, after all, part of the love affair between the borough of Brooklyn and "Dem Bums" who lived in the local neighborhoods.

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KEYWORDS: brooklyndodgers; dodgers; dukesnider; losangelesdodgers
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To: Revenge of Sith

I remember after the ‘81 baseball strike Cashman wrote a song for each team to the tune of Willie Mickey And The Duke.


21 posted on 02/27/2011 3:02:07 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: Robe

My Dad and his 2 brothers were best of friends with Duke growing up in Brooklyn. It was like a death to all of them when the Dodgers left Brooklyn.

They should never have left.


22 posted on 02/27/2011 3:04:09 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: sushiman
I was 7 in CT that summer and a Dodger fan , although I can’t remember how or why I was . My friend and I listened to the final game on the radio and when the Dodgers won we biked up and down the street in front of my house and screamed “ The Dodgers won the series ! “ Childhood memories .

We watched the final game on our big 1952 Majestic TV.

23 posted on 02/27/2011 3:15:15 PM PST by Rufii
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To: Rufii
Duke Snider was a household word in Southern California in 1959, when the Blue Crew beat the White Sox to win the World Championship.

I was only 9, but I was there!

24 posted on 02/27/2011 3:27:44 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

lots of 1-0 games


25 posted on 02/27/2011 3:34:40 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

I tried to explain playing in wool\cotton flannel in summer to my son. He thought I had 2 heads.


26 posted on 02/27/2011 3:35:53 PM PST by stylin19a ("Marine Sniper - You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
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To: Robe

You forgot a very important somebody. The guy in the cat bird seat...Red Barbour. It was he who knitted everything together. What a voice. What a talent. sd


27 posted on 02/27/2011 4:00:57 PM PST by shotdog (I love my country. It's our government I'm afraid of.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

His grandson played college ball with two of my sons. I met him once. One of the great sluggers of his time....


28 posted on 02/27/2011 4:03:48 PM PST by freebilly
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To: My Favorite Headache

Sad news, indeed....I spent many a summer with my transistor radio glued to my ear listening to the newly transplanted Los Angeles Dodgers with Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett calling the play-by-play. What a team! Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Wally Moon, Gil Hodges and, of course, “The Duke”. RIP, Mr. Snider. Thanks for the memories....


29 posted on 02/27/2011 4:14:34 PM PST by Donkey Odious (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: jwalsh07

That’s Willie Mays making “The Catch” in the first game of the 1954 World Series, after Cleveland player Vic Wertz drove a towering shot out to center field, at the Polo Grounds.

Giants won the Series, 4-0.


30 posted on 02/27/2011 4:21:10 PM PST by Signalman
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To: stylin19a

Find an old flannel jersey and let him run around for a summer afternoon outside while wearing it.


31 posted on 02/27/2011 4:46:14 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Leave the gun. Take the canolis.)
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To: markman46
lots of 1-0 games

Yep. Maury Wills beats out the throw to first, steals second, scores on a long single by Willie Davis . . .

32 posted on 02/27/2011 5:36:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: Signalman

That it is!


33 posted on 02/27/2011 5:36:37 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: My Favorite Headache
From my perspective, it's sad that I can remember Duke and all those great players from those days but can't even give you a name from my own Detroit Tigers except for some jerk named Miguel Cabrera who was just busted in Florida for DUI.........

I don't know why but baseball was more important to me when I was a kid than anything else in the world. I remember my grandfather sitting on the porch of his house trailer which sat next to my house listening to the Tigers on hot afternoons and I'd go over and sit next to him and just listen to the game.........

34 posted on 02/27/2011 5:53:22 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Oh Magoo, you've done it again.....)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I had the privilege of seeing Drysdale pitch against the Cincinnati Reds in 1964. The Dodgers beat them 13 or 14 to 1 and Drysdale had a homer in the game too, if I recall correctly. Koufax was my favorite but the two of them were an incredible 1-2 punch.


35 posted on 02/27/2011 6:11:41 PM PST by miele man
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To: Rufii

We had a TV - Motorola I think - but I don’t think we could get the channel the game was on for some reason .


36 posted on 02/27/2011 6:54:36 PM PST by sushiman
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To: Jeff Chandler

With Larry Sherry in the bullpen !


37 posted on 02/27/2011 6:56:18 PM PST by sushiman
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To: My Favorite Headache

His time playing baseball was before mine but up here in Canada we did enjoy him on Montreal Expos broadcasts.


38 posted on 02/27/2011 7:26:37 PM PST by xp38
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To: Jeff Chandler

YES!

the dodgers of the 60’s


39 posted on 02/27/2011 8:26:20 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: jwalsh07

Willie, Mickey and the Duke.

Gil Hodges, John Roseboro, Wally Moon, Gil Hodges, Charlie Neil, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Johnny Padres Carl Furillo and the rest of that gang we so loved.

RIP Duke.


40 posted on 02/27/2011 9:03:41 PM PST by Mike Darancette (The heresy of heresies was common sense - Orwell)
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