Duke Snider
Duke Snider
Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Usually assigned to center field, he spent most of his Major League Baseballcareer playing for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, later playing one season each for the New York Metsand San Francisco Giants...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth19 September 1926
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I take full responsibilities for my actions. I also hope that my fans, especially those in Brooklyn, can accept my apology.
I think Jim Edmonds plays center field somewhat like how I played center field, and I like to watch him play it.
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.
Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I should sweep out the stadium every night after I finished playing the game.
Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.