Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider (September 19, 1926 – February 27, 2011), nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", was a Major League Baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1947–62), New York Mets (1963), and San Francisco Giants (1964).Snider was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.
The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.
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We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.
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On Jackie Robinson: "He knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have."
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Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
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The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.
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Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today: the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.
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"The Mets are wonderful but you can't take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn." (on Duke Snider Night at the Polo Grounds in 1963)
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Fact
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Upon his death, his remains were interred at Masonic Cemetery in Fallbrook, San Diego County, California.
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Uniform number 4 retired by the Dodgers.
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Hit the last home run at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on September 22, 1957.
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Made his major debut on on April 17, 1947.
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Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers All-Time RBI Leader (1,271).
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Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers All-Time Homerun Leader (389).
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He was sentenced to two years probation and fined $5,000 in 1995 for failing to pay taxes on money earned signing autographs at card shows.
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The Sporting News Major League Player of the Year (1955).
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Team captain of the Dodgers in 1962.
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Holds the National League record for most home runs (11) and most RBIs (26) in World Series play. He is also the only player to have four homers in two World Series (1952 and 1955).
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His favorite athlete as a kid was Jackie Robinson, who played for UCLA in Snider's hometown.
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Was sold to the San Francisco Giants on Opening Day of the 1964 season, where he wore number 28.
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Wore number 11 initially when he joined the Mets, then switched back to his familiar number 4 when Charley Neal, who refused to give it up, was traded to Cincinnati.
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Was sold to the New York Mets just before the start of the 1963 season, where he was a huge sentimental favorite.
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Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1980. Played for the National League's Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1947-1962), New York Mets (1963) and San Francisco Giants (1964).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pastime
1990
Steamer Fan
The Trouble with Girls
1969
The Cranker
The Rifleman
1959
TV Series
Jeff Wallace
The Geisha Boy
1958
Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder (uncredited)
Father Knows Best
1956
TV Series
Duke Snider
Kill the Umpire
1950
Second Baseman (uncredited)
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Prime 9
2009
TV Series
Himself
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
ESPN 25: Who's #1?
2005-2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame...
2005
TV Series
Himself
1955, Seven Days of Fall
2005
Documentary
Himself
This Week in Baseball
2005
TV Series
Himself
ESPN SportsCentury
2000-2003
TV Series documentary
Himself
Shot Heard 'Round the World
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Baseball's Greatest Hits
1990
Video documentary
Himself
The Golden Decade of Baseball
1990
Video documentary
Simon & Simon
1988
TV Series
Himself
Greats of the Game
1985
TV Series
Guest
1982 MLB All-Star Game
1982
TV Special
Himself - NL Honorary Captain
The Way It Was
1974-1975
TV Series
Himself
1963 MLB All-Star Game
1963
TV Special
Himself - NL Outfielder
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1961
TV Series
Himself
Home Run Derby
1960
TV Series
Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1953-1959
TV Series
Himself - Basketball Referee / Himself
1959 World Series
1959
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Los Angeles Dodgers Center Fielder / Right Fielder / Himself - Los Angeles Dodgers Pinch Hitter
What's My Line?
1954-1958
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest #1 / Himself - Mystery Guest
1956 World Series
1956
TV Series
Himself - Brooklyn Dodgers Center Fielder
1956 MLB All-Star Game
1956
TV Special
Himself - NL Outfielder
1955 World Series
1955
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Brooklyn Dodgers Center Fielder
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1955
TV Series
Himself - Baseball Player
1955 MLB All-Star Game
1955
TV Special
Himself - NL Center Fielder
1954 MLB All-Star Game
1954
TV Special
Himself - NL Center Fielder
1953 World Series
1953
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Brooklyn Dodgers Center Fielder
1952 World Series
1952
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Brooklyn Dodgers Center Fielder
1950 MLB All-Star Game
1950
TV Special
Himself - NL Outfielder
1949 World Series
1949
TV Series
Himself - Brooklyn Dodgers Center Fielder
Style of the Stars
1947
Documentary short
All-Star Baseball Player
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
DHL Presents Major League Baseball Hometown Heroes
2006
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
100 Years of the World Series
2003
Video documentary
Himself
The 50 Greatest Home Runs in Baseball History
1992
Video documentary
Himself
When It Was a Game
1991
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Style of the Stars (1947) as All-Star Baseball Player
Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush (2007) as Himself
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