Duke Snider was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.
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25 Facts About Duke Snider
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Duke Snider was a strong-armed quarterback, who reportedly could throw the football 70 yards.
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Duke Snider played briefly for the Montreal Royals of the International League in 1944 and for the Newport News Dodgers in the Piedmont League in the same year.
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Duke Snider got his first major league at bat in the second Dodger's game of the 1947 season on April 17 and hit a single.
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Duke Snider returned to the Dodgers at the end of the season in time for the World Series against the New York Yankees.
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In 1949, Duke Snider became a regular major leaguer hitting 23 home runs with 92 runs batted in, helping the Dodgers into the World Series.
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Duke Snider led the National League in runs scored, home runs, and RBI in separate seasons.
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Duke Snider appeared in six post-seasons with the Dodgers, facing the New York Yankees in the first five and the Chicago White Sox in the last.
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When Duke Snider joined the Mets, he discovered that his familiar number 4 was being worn by Charlie Neal, who refused to give it up.
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Duke Snider wore number 11 during the first half of the season, then switched back to 4 after Neal was traded.
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Duke Snider proved to be a sentimental favorite among former Dodger fans who now rooted for the Mets.
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Duke Snider was named to the All-Star Game in Cleveland, his eighth and final selection.
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Duke Snider entered the game as a pinch hitter for Tommy Davis in the top of the ninth inning.
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Duke Snider was sold to the San Francisco Giants on Opening Day in 1964.
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Duke Snider had no triples for the first and only time in his career.
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Duke Snider appeared in three different positions for the Giants, playing 26 games in right field and 18 in left field for a combined total of 288.
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Duke Snider finished second to teammate Roy Campanella in the 1955 Most Valuable Player balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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Duke Snider occasionally took acting roles, sometimes appearing in television or films as himself or as a professional baseball player.
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Duke Snider played himself in "Hero Father" in the Robert Young television series Father Knows Best, made one guest appearance on the Chuck Connors television series The Rifleman, and played Wallace in The Retired Gun.
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Besides his selection to the Hall of Fame in 1980, in 1999 Duke Snider was ranked 84 on The Sporting Newss list of "100 Greatest Players", and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
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Duke Snider married Beverly Null in 1947; they had four children.
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Duke Snider died on February 27,2011, at age 84 of an undisclosed illness at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, California.
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Duke Snider was the last living Brooklyn Dodger who was on the field for the final out of the 1955 World Series.
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