Listening to WFAN we have just learned that former Brooklyn & LA Dodger Duke Snider has passed away at the age of 84.
Snider, who played with the 1963 Mets at the tail end of his career, passed away in Valley Vista Convalenscent Home in Escondido,California.
Willie Mays is now the only surviving member of the great Hall Of Fame Centerfielders that played in NY in the 1950's.
Snider was the last surviving member of Roger Kahn's baseball classic, The Boys Of Summer, which chronicled some of the retired Brooklyn Dodger players in the early 1970's.
Snider was remembered in Terry Cashman's baseball song, Talking Baseball. Snider was mentioned along with Mays and Mantle in the refrain where Cashman sings:
We're talkin' baseball Kluzuski Campanella
Talkin' baseball The man and Bobby Fella
The Scooter, the Barber and the Newc
They knew them all from Boston to Dubuque
Especially Willie, Mickey, and the Duke
Talkin' baseball The man and Bobby Fella
The Scooter, the Barber and the Newc
They knew them all from Boston to Dubuque
Especially Willie, Mickey, and the Duke
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