In the 1950s glory days of New York City baseball, three giants, now all Hall-of-Famers, patrolled center field. Mickey Mantle for the Yankees, Willie Mays for the Giants, and Duke Snider for the Dodgers. For a boy growing up in that era, if you paid any attention at all to baseball, you knew Willie, Mickey and the Duke.
Duke died on Sunday at age 84. Only Willie is left.
