RIP: Duke Snider

[Fuddjcal]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/audi...n_baseball.mp3

I remember hearing this song with Gramps back in the early 80's. As a Dodger fan, This song will always bring a tear to my eye when I think of what it means to me.

To see what has become of the Dodgers with the McLouses in charge already makes me sick enough. It's bad enough that they have beat my heart with golf spikes and now this. This is a sad day for Dodger Fans and for our National Pastime.

[geor952]

Thanks for posting this. Tim Kurkijan's video tribute was nicely done and a nice way to remember the Duke this evening. Very sad news, but a wonderful life to celebrate!

[Vol]

Originally Posted by geor952

Thanks for posting this. Tim Kurkijan's video tribute was nicely done and a nice way to remember the Duke this evening. Very sad news, but a wonderful life to celebrate!

Thanks for mentioning it. Wonderful.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6165386

[mr2686]

Duke was the first player I got an autograph from when I got back in to collecting in the mid 80's. A very nice man who let everyone in line try on his HOF ring. He always gets the short end of the stick when talking about Mantle, Mays and Snider, but I recently heard he had more homeruns and RBI's in the 50's than the other two. Pretty impressive.

[tedzan]

The "Duke of Flatbush" was one of the best BB players of the 1950's....I say this even though I was an avid Mickey Mantle fan as a kid back then.
And as many have already said in this thread, a fine gentleman when signing at BB card shows. Always with a smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.






In 1942 at Compton (CA) High School, the Duke played center field and pitched. In his first pitching performance (vs Beverly Hills HS), he pitched a
No-Hitter, striking out 15 batters.
Snider also starred at basketball and football while in HS. In fact, Pete Rozelle (Compton classmate of Snider's) paid Snider the ultimate compliment
some years later when he was the Commisioner of the NFL ...... "The most amazing football game" Rozelle had ever seen was the HS game in which
a young tailback named Edwin Snider threw a 63-yard pass in the closing seconds of the game to beat Compton's strongest rival.







GOD BLESS your soul Duke, and may GOD comfort your family and all the sports fans that have loved you throughout the years.



TED Z