(10-04-2025, 07:41 PM)BobK Wrote: In the 50s NY had three great CFers Mays, Mantle and Duke Snider. The Duke hit 40 or more HRs 5 years in a row
Edit. Thought I should check out Kiner. Darn I have to stop reading trivia I get Kiner is the correct answer. 1947-51
Copied from Tom Fitzgerald's 8/17/99 "Top of the Sixth" column:
A BOY OF SUMMER: Matt Morgado, newly appointed branch manager for the Bank of America in Fort Bragg, saw a gentleman walking into the bank wearing a Dodgers cap. "Little far north to be wearing a Dodgers hat," Morgado told him. The man replied: "Son, I live here and I bank at this bank. My name is Duke Snider."
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