High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider (born September 19, 1926 in Los Angeles, California), nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", is a former Major League baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1947 62), New York Mets (1963), and San Francisco Giants (1964). Snider was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.