Winter Dreams of The Boys of Summer and The Duke | The Met Online

27 at age 84, played center field for the Brooklyn Dodgers of my youth. Voted into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1980, the Duke not only played center field with verve and grace, but was a lefty-hitting slugger who hit 40 or more home runs ... But I had a sit-down session with the Duke at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel when he was on a 1988 book tour. Snider was self-effacing, would not disclose what the Dodgers paid him and thought post-free agency players were entitled to all ...