Where does Duke Snider rank among baseball greats?
Duke Snider ranks #7 among the Top 50 all-time at CF. Rankings ⇒ Duke Snider Teammates Roy Campanella Gil Hodges Jackie Robinson Arky Vaughan Maury Wills Frank Howard Willie Mays Carl Furillo Carl Erskine Don Newcombe Preacher Roe Sandy Koufax Joe Black Walt Alston Best Season: 1956 Though his batting average dipped below .300, Snider still paced the National League in both slugging and OBP. He led in OPS, and blasted 43 homers. He scored and drove in 100 runs for the fourth straight season. The Dodgers won their fourth pennant in five years in 1956, yet Snider finished a disappointing 10th in the MVP voting for some reason. Factoids Duke Snider hit two home runs off Phillies’ ace Robin Roberts on September 22, 1957, the last homers ever hit in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. From 1947 to 1961, a span of 15 seasons, Duke Snider and Gil Hodges combined for 745 home runs, the fourth highest mark in baseball history by teammates. Duke Snider’s first two career homers came in the same game. Willi
