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Duke Snider, Hall of Fame Dodgers center fielder,
wskj 发表于 2011/4/11 11:04:00 |
CNN Brooklyn and La Dodgers Hall of Fame center fielder Donald "Duke" Snider died Sunday at the convalescent hospital in Escondido, California. He was 84, based on team officials.
Sniders career while using Dodgers spanned 16 seasons and included a halfdozen World Series appearances. Among them was the 1955 series, that this Brooklyn Dodgers won, as well as the 1959 series title, which Sniders team captured after moving to California.
An announcement released by the Dodgers organization described Snider as one of "the games more feared hitters."
Snider led the foremost leagues in home runs and runs batted in while in the 1950s. With a career total 389 home runs and 1,271 RBIs, the seventime AllStar center fielder continues to be the Dodger franchises alltime leader within categories. He slugged four homers apiece from the 1952 and 1955 World Series.
Snider was nicknamed "Duke" by his father when he was 5. The former school baseball, football and basketball standout was inducted into your National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980 with the exceptional Dodger number 4 uniform was retired.
After retiring for a player, Snider returned as being a minor league manager for that Dodgers. He later joined the Montreal Expos as batting coach and broadcaster.
"He was an incredibly gifted talent and his defensive abilities were often overlooked as a consequence of playing in a small ballpark, Ebbets Field," said former Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, speaking about the Dodgers home in Brooklyn. "When he'd a chance to run and move defensively, he had the grace and also the abilities of Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays of course, he was a World Series hero that could forever be remembered while in the borough of Brooklyn."
Mlb Commissioner Bud Selig called Snider, "a key player within a special era in baseball, joining Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle to build New York Citys unparalleled triumvirate of center fielders Willie, Mickey as well as Duke."
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