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The DUKE OF FLATBUSH
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780821726983
ISBN: 0821726986
Label: Zebra
Manufacturer: Zebra
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: July 01, 1989
Publisher: Zebra
Studio: Zebra
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Rating:  - Excellent book!
Very good book if you're a Dodger fan! Excellent service from Amazon at a reasonable price!
Rating: - Best Bio of Brooklyn Dodgers
Duke Snider has filled this autobiography with wonderful stories and anecdotes and made it a thoroughly enjoyable read for baseball fans. No muckraking, no scandals, just the good stuff that we're really interested in as fans. He does state, as I've always asserted, that Roger Kahn made a lot of mistakes in "Boys of Summer" which is a totally disappointing book. Duke gives us insights into those great days of Brooklyn, the move to L.A., and his own struggles and triumphs as a ballplayer. The only ... Read More
Rating:  - A Rosy look at baseball in 1950s New York
I've been a Dodger fan my whole, but I never got to see Duke Snider play. But seeing old interviews and photos he always looked like a pretty sunny guy. In "Duke of Flatbush", sunny is pretty much how Snider comes across.
Throughout the book, which is written in a breezy, not always chronological way, Snider talks about what great friends and teammates he had. How they hated the Giants and Yankees, but always in a congenial sportsmanlike manner. How fairly treated he was by Dodger ... Read More
Rating: - Reliving Baseball's "Golden Era"
Duke Snider recalls the days of his baseball career and his associations with the "Boys of Summer". His recollections of Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Reese, Campanella, etc. is a must-read! It not only talks about the ballplayers in their prime, but how they stayed close after they retired. Their friendships and how they cope with life's ups and downs shows us how they are human as well
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