Passing: Duke Snider
From The New York Times:
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: February 27, 2011
Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder renowned for his home run drives and superb defensive play in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ glory years, died Sunday (February 27) in Escondido, Calif. He was 84.
In the 1950s, the golden age of New York baseball, the World Series almost always meant red, white and blue bunting at Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds. October afternoons provided a national showcase for baseball’s premier center fielders — Snider of the Dodgers, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Willie Mays of the Giants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/sports/baseball/28snider.html?_r=1&hp
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: February 27, 2011
Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder renowned for his home run drives and superb defensive play in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ glory years, died Sunday (February 27) in Escondido, Calif. He was 84.
In the 1950s, the golden age of New York baseball, the World Series almost always meant red, white and blue bunting at Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds. October afternoons provided a national showcase for baseball’s premier center fielders — Snider of the Dodgers, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Willie Mays of the Giants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/sports/baseball/28snider.html?_r=1&hp
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