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Posts Tagged ‘Cooperstown

MLB Dodgers Hall of Fame Player Duke Snider Dies At The Age Of 84…Played On The 1955 Championship Team In Brooklyn

February 27, 2011

Baseball Hall of Famer and Dodger’s legend Edwin Donald Snider,known to many generations of Dodger fans as “Duke” Snider, has passed away today at the age of 84.(LA Times) He succumbed to what his family called natural causes at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, California.(CBS) Snider was given the nickname “Duke” by his father […]

Hall of Fame Manager Sparky Anderson Dead at 76(1934 – 2010)

November 4, 2010

Just a day after his family announced the sad news that he would be admitted into hospice care because he was suffering from dementia, Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson has died today at the age of 76.(NY Daily News) He managed the National League’s Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with […]