#Duke Snider

[ifelllikeastar]

Willie Mays amazes centerfield fans with a leaping, one-handed catch of Duke Snider's long drive in 1954.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Dodgers Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese wave a big bat before the start of Game 2 of the World Series with the Yankees, October 2, 1952.

Photo: Charles Carson for the NY Journal American via Univ. of Texas

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[effluvlia]

SCTV Movie of the Week:

I Was a Teenage Communist

1982

[deanmafia]

Metalocalypse x Motorcity cuz I thought Pickles and The Duke would be hilarious and the Duke is voiced by Dee Snider so y not😭

[paper-mario-wiki]

Who is your dream pull for the Penis Box Line? One voice actor you'd love to hear say it more than anyone else? I'd be overjoyed to get Mark Hamil to day it as the Joker

I've actually got a list of people I'd love to get to say it, but they're not in any particular order:

Greg Eagles as Grim

Billy West as Phillip J. Fry

Dana Snider as Master Shake/Gazpacho

Crispin Freeman as Winston

Richard Horvitz as Zim

Jon St. John as Duke Nukem

Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle, but really any Tara Strong character would be awesome

Tom Kenny as any Tom Kenny character with the Tom Kenny voice

You can probably tell, but the highest priorities are voice actors that got a lot of work in the 2000s.

[baseballbybsmile]

Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle (Old Timers' Day at Shea Stadium - July 16, 1977)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.19

Beer Birthdays

Coletta Möritz (1860)

Jim Dorsch (1951)

Keith Lemcke (1959)

Ken Kelley (1960)

Justin Crossley (1982)

Five Favorite Birthdays

William Golding; English writer (1911)

Jeremy Irons; English actor (1948)

David McCallum; actor (1933)

Arthur Rackham; English illustrator, artist (1867)

Adam West; actor (1928)

Famous Birthdays

Mario Batali; chef (1960)

David Bromberg; musician, singer, songwriter (1945)

Helen Carter; country singer (1927)

Jack Dunham; animator (1910)

George Cadbury; chocolatier (1839)

"Mama" Cass Elliot; singer (1943)

Brian Epstein; Beatles manager (1934)

Jimmy Fallon; comedian, actor (1974)

Frances Farmer; actor (1913)

Lita Ford; rock guitarist, singer (1958)

Henry Arthur Jones; English writer (1851)

William Hesketh Lever; soap-maker (1851)

James Lipton; actor, television host (1926)

Joan Lunden; television journalist (1950)

Joe Morgan; Houston Astros 2B (1943)

Soledad O'Brien; television journalist (1966)

Freda Payne; pop singer (1942)

Louis F. Powell Jr.; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1907)

Amber Rayne; porn actor (1984)

Faye Reagan; porn actor (1988)

Nile Rogers; rock musician (1952)

Victoria Silvstedt; Swedish actor (1974)

Duke Snider; Brooklyn/L.A. Dodgers CF (1926)

Twiggy; English model (1949)

Paul Williams; songwriter (1940)

Trisha Yearwood; country singer (1964)

Richard Zsigmondy; Austrian-Hungarian chemist (1865)

[betweenthebasepaths]

Once a Navy and Marine flight training school, the land at 3901 26th St. in Vero Beach, Florida is hallowed ground for Dodger fans. Dodgertown became the team's spring training camp in 1948.

When not in use by the other Boys of Summer, Dodgertown was a camp for boys.

Dodgertown caught the attention of Life magazine in 1948 and became a featured cover story.

The media praised the Vero Beach locale for its quiet, clean and friendly community. Of Dodgertown, everything was described as high-quality and new. Jimmy Powers of the New York Daily News wrote, "The Dodgers have an excellent rookie camp in Vero Beach. The kitchen and equipment rooms are first class."

The players and other residents of Dodgertown didn't share these opinions. "Amenities? If we were lucky, they'd feed the spiders so they wouldn't be hungry at night and crawl all over us," remarked Duke Snider.

At times, hundreds of players called the grounds home, all dreaming of a future with the Dodgers. Players were split into several teams. The best players played on Field One, the nicest field on the facility.

If you were a fringe prospect and particularly unlucky, you might be stuck at Field Seven, furthest away from "civilization," through a swamp and bog, and home to no small number of water moccasins.

However, navigating this same swamp under the cover of night was necessary for almost all players. It was the solitary path to Lennie's, the closest bar to grab a drink. Getting caught meant a violation of curfew, which may have been a fate worse than the snakes.

[fridaysvalentine]

the only dodgers with four seasons hitting at least 30 homers: gil hodges, duke snider, eric karros, mike piazza, roy campanella, and max muncy.

dodgers @ red sox - 08.26.23

[joshbarneyca]

The Best Baseball Players from California

The state of California has produced some of the most accomplished professional baseball players in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of, if not the, greatest hitters of all time, Ted Williams was born in San Diego in 1918. He played 19 seasons in the MLB, all with the Boston Red Sox. Williams led the league in runs scored six times.

Williams regularly ranked among the season leaders in runs batted in (RBI) and walks. That said, he is best known for his impressive batting average and on-base percentage (OBP). He led the league in batting average six times and finished his career with a .344 average, sixth-best in league history. He had a career OBP of .481, a league record. He received countless individual accolades during his career, highlighted by 16 All Star team selections.

While Williams excelled as an individual player, the Red Sox failed to win a World Series title during his more than two decades with the franchise, which included multiple missed seasons due to military service. Other California-born players have enjoyed greater postseason success.

Lefty pitcher Randy Johnson was born in Walnut Creek in 1963. He was initially drafted in the fourth round by the Atlanta Braves, but made his professional debut for the Montreal Expos in 1988. Johnson established himself as an ace pitcher, leading the league in win-loss percentage and earned run average (ERA) in 1995, but experienced multiple trades during the first phase of his career.

Johnson signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 1999 and soon became regarded as one of the league’s top pitchers. He led the league in ERA during three of his first four years in Arizona, and recorded more strikeouts than any other pitcher each of those seasons. In 2001, Johnson and Curt Schilling led the Diamondbacks against the New York Yankees in the World Series. Johnson won all three games he pitched and was named co-MVP with Schilling. He finished his career as one of the league’s most decorated pitchers, with multiple Cy Young Awards and strikeout records.

Barry Bonds is another California native who enjoyed considerable individual success but finished his career without a World Series victory. A left-handed outfielder and designated hitter, he was born in Riverside in 1964. Bonds started his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but played his final 15 seasons with the San Francisco Giants.

Bonds earned seven MVP awards during his career, along with eight Gold Gloves, 12 Silver Sluggers, and many additional plaudits. He took part in six Home Run Derby competitions, winning in 1996. He concluded his career with an OBP of .444, No. 7 all-time, and is the MLB career home run leader at 762.

Other notable baseball players to come out of the Sunshine State include Duke Snider of Los Angeles, Fresno’s Tom Seaver, and Mark McGwire, a Pomona native. Center fielder Joe DiMaggio was born in Martinez in 1914. He played his entire career for the New York Yankees, winning nine out of the 10 World Series he played in.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Brooklyn Dodgers Duke Snider and Don Newcombe celebrate their one and only World Series victory over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, October 4, 1955.

Photo: Associated Press via USA Today

[collectingall]

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[deanmafia]

I only put them together cuz Pickles did glam Metal and The Duke was Dee Snider 😭

[baseballbybsmile]

Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle (Old Timers' Day at Shea Stadium - July 16, 1977)