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Duke Snider Original Professional Negative Photograph

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Duke Snider Original Professional Negative Photograph
This is something that you will not see often. Here we have a 8x10 professional negative of one of baseball's greats, Duke Snider. We believe that this negative was possibly taken for a magazine or newspaper. It is in very good condition with some slight chipping along the side. * Snider debuted in Brooklyn with Jackie Robinson in 1947, but it wasn't until 1949, after Branch Rickey hired George Sisler to help Snider "establish an acquaintance with the strike zone," that Snider showed the form that would make him the leading home run hitter of the 1950s, with 326. In the four years (1954-1957) that Mays, Mantle, and Snider starred simultaneously in New York in full-time capacities, it was Snider who led the three in homers and RBI. His power stroke was well suited to the bandbox structure of Ebbets Field , and the drives he hit that didn't leave the ballpark regularly pounded the stadium's high right-field wall for extra bases. From 1947 to 1961, Snider teamed with Gil Hodges to hit 745 homers, the third-highest total for a duo in National League history, and the fourth-highest total in the majors. *