Sad day for all baseball fans...... http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-great-hall-of-famer-duke-snider-dies-at-84/1 By Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Duke Snide, here throwing out the first pitch at a 2007 game at Dodger Stadium, was the CAPTION By Kirby Lee-US PRESSWIRE, US PRESSWIRE Duke Snider, a Hall of Fame outfielder who hit 407 home runs in an 18-year career that spanned the Dodgers' final years in Brooklyn and first years in Los Angeles, died Sunday morning. He was 84.Snider passed away at a convalescent hospital in Escondido, Calif., following an undisclosed illness, according to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Snider was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1980, his 11th appearance on the ballot. He was a lifetime .295 hitter and an eight-time All-Star, with all but one of those appearances coming as a Brooklyn Dodger, where he earned the moniker "The Duke of Flastbush." Snider was part of a celebrated group of New York center fielders at the time, as his counterparts included Yankees great Mickey Mantle and Giants legend Willie Mays -- Willie, Mickey and the Duke, as the Terry Cashman tune "Talkin' Baseball" so deftly put it. He was the last surviving member of the Dodgers' famed "Boys of Summer" group that won the 1955 World Series -- their lone title in Brooklyn -- and later was immortalized in a Roger Kahn book. That '55 season also was Snider's finest from various production standpoints. He led the National League in both RBI (136) and runs (126) while hitting .309. He narrowly lost the NL MVP crown that year to teammate Roy Campanella. Snider followed that up by hitting four home runs in the World Series against the Yankees. He remains the only player to hit four home runs in two Series, having done it against the Yankees in 1952, as well.
Ah Bro, could have told you, the Silver Fox played in the 50's and 60's, most Dolfans on the board are to young to have seen him play, add in MLB does a bad job of marketing itself* and small wonder, you'd be stunned who hasn't heard of Willie Mays or Sandy Koufax. Did you see him out on the WC or in NYC? *I tried to find what I considered the greatest baseball play ever, Pete Rose leveling Ray Fosse at home plate to score the winning run in a meaningless All Star game and it is nowhere to be found on Youtube.
