If there is a Bedford Avenue in the afterlife, it's time to board the windows.
AP
Duke Snider is part of the Charmed "Boys of Summer" with the Dodgers in the late 1940s and 1950.
Duke Snider, who spent the prime of his career Major League hit balls on the wall Ebbets Field on the ground right on the busy street in Brooklyn, died Sunday of natural causes in Escondido, California, at age 84 years
The Duke of Flatbush "was the last living everyday life regularly of" The Boys of Summer ", the legendary Dodger teams of the 1950s that included Brooklyn's World Cup team in 1955. Pitchers Carl Erskine and Don Newcombe are among those who survive.
Representatives of the New York Dodgers Hall Trio Fame center fielders in the 1950s - Willie, Mickey and the Duke as a song immortalized in the Terry Cashman - Snider hit 40 home runs or more in five consecutive seasons in Brooklyn. And recordings on the legendary 40-foot wall / fence on Bedford Avenue were majestic.
Snider did not have to wear his No. 4 in the white Dodger - his royal equipment patrolled center field and a shift to the plate was recognized by the entire community.
The world of baseball can conclude that Willie Mays was the best player and Mickey Mantle, which is natural, but Brooklyn never admit it, cites Snider clutch hitting and underrated defensive play. It is the only player to hit four home runs twice in one World Series, both against the Yankees.
The California native has learned to love and embrace Brooklyn, despite a few skirmishes with the fans, managers and the media. was booed after leaving the men on the basis of a doubleheader in 1955, Snider hit with fans as a pioneer and the worst in the game He apologized the next day.
As a child, I attended the Welcome Home Dinner "for the Dodgers just before their opening 1956. My brother and I shared the assignment to the autograph of every player on the podium to receive Dodger. We all except one - apparently escaped the Duke early.
When the Dodgers left for Los Angeles after the season 1957, Snider Brooklyn missed much he misses it. The Los Angeles Coliseum was almost the opposite configuration Ebbets Field - left field was 250 feet down the line quickly with a screen of 40 feet on the ground right out to 390 feet and stretched to 440 pink in the middle. Limited to 106 games by injuries, was struck on the left Snider home run total from 40 to 15 in '57 the first year in Los Angeles
He returned to New York Mets, if the acquired him in 1963, its second year of its existence. At 36 he was well beyond his prime,
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