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Monday, February 28, 2011

This Is The End of This Month & An Era In Brooklyn

Remember that Major League Baseball song by Terry Cashman, which ended with "Willie, Mickey & The Duke", well that club is reduced by 1 down to 1:
Yes, that Great Centerfielder, Edwin "Duke" Snyder, "The Duke Of Flatbush", died yesterday at age 84 in California.

"Dem Bums", known as the Brooklyn Dodgers, are becoming fewer in number.

I guess it all started in 1972, with the Passing of Gil Hodges & later that year with Jackie Robinson;

Requiscant In Pacem;

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