In this Oct. 6, 1952, file photo, Brooklyn Dodgers'
Duke Snider is greeted by the batboy on his second homer of Game 6
of baseball's World Series against the New York Yankees at Ebbets
Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Snider, 84, died early
Sunday at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido,
Calif., of what the family called natural causes. Snider
was part of the charmed "Boys of Summer" with the Dodgers in the
late 1940s and 1950s. He helped lead Brooklyn to its only World
Series championship in 1955.
AP file photo
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