Monday, February 28, 2011

RIP Duke.



Just know that Mickey was way better. Just sayn'
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7 comments:

Ron said...

How great were the Old Days? Duke Snider, a Hall of Famer, was the 3rd best centerfielder...in New York.

February 28, 2011 at 2:34 PM
Ron said...

BTW, Duke was also the last of the regulars from the Boys of Summer days....I think Carl Erskine is still alive, though.

February 28, 2011 at 2:37 PM
Titus said...

whores

February 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM
ricpic said...

Of course both Mantle and Mays did their defensive work in enormous cow pastures. The Duke on the other hand not only had to play the field but the walls as well in bandbox Ebbetts and did so superbly, often holding doubles to singles or playing caroms off the wall so perfectly that his throw nailed the would be two-bagger out at second. Yes, there is no doubt that the Duke of Flatbush was the completest ballplayer of the three.

February 28, 2011 at 6:50 PM
chickelit said...

Titus! I thought you were in Indjah...with gaharajia mahal!

February 28, 2011 at 7:09 PM
ricpic said...

An interesting statistic ball fans: Duke Snider was one of only two ballplayers with more than a thousand RBI's in the 1950's. The other one? His fellow teammate Gil Hodges. That's right. Not Mantle. Not Mays. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

February 28, 2011 at 8:35 PM
Ron said...

Mantle was the greatest player of the '50's, and Mays was only slightly behind him. Defensively, both played in bigger, harder to play Center Fields, but both were quicker than Snider. Make no mistake, Snider was a great player; but Mays and Mantle were substantially better. In Bill James Historical Abstract, his CF ratings for all time are:

1.Mays
2.Cobb
3.Mantle
4.Speaker
5.DiMaggio
6.Snider

February 28, 2011 at 11:57 PM

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