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.
Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.
What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.
Duke and his Dodger teammates won the 1955 World Series. It was the first in the teams history.
Snider had an 18-year Hall of Fame career for the Dodgers. He accumulated 99 stolen bases, 2,116 hits and 1,259 runs while playing in 2,143 total games. Duke had a career high 199 hits in 1954. He retired with a .540 slugging percentage and a .295 batting average.
Duke had 198 hits in 1953.
Duke was listed at 6'0" and 190 lbs.
Dukes baseball nickname was "The Silver Fox."
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