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Article: DUKE DID IT ALL SNIDER OUTHOMERED MAYS, MANTLE IN N.Y.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- August 30, 2000
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Byline: Steve Dilbeck Staff Writer
Before they are linked by numbers, which should be any day now, they were linked by attitude.
They are Dodgers outfielders, separated by more than four decades. Two power hitters, whose home ballparks were nearly 3,000 miles apart, united by approach.
Duke Snider was a Dodgers institution, one of the ``Boys of Summer'' who brought fame, and finally, a World Series title to Brooklyn. He spent 16 years as a Dodger.
Gary Sheffield is a comparative Dodger newborn, in his third season with the Dodgers, with his fourth club overall.
It is Snider - ``The Lord of Flatbush'' - who has for 44 years ...