What's my Line? Duke Snider

[andyb2707]

The Duke of Flatbush, and one of the greatest Hall of Famers.

[rayjr62]

R.I.P. Duke.

[hoghash78]

That was fun...Duke Snider I believe is voted the best dressed baseball player of all time. 2"nd to him Alex Rodriguez.

[acbluestone]

Brilliant.

[LEONGFunk16]

RIP Duke... A True Legend

[delightfulstar]

RIP Duke. One of the best of the best in the world of baseball, and the pride of the B'klyn Dodgers. He will be missed. :-(

[bodiddleybodiddley]

R.I.P.

[darkhoarse820]

HA! Lorraine Day said, "sounds like a Brooklyn Dodger" and I heard someone in the crowd respond with "ohhhh". The wound was still fresh, Lorraine. It was 1958!

[idlefonzo201]

@darkhoarse820 He was a Brooklyn Dodger. He spent most of his career as a Brooklyn Dodger.

[intjurban]

RIP Duke.

[pura4vida]

RIP DUKE

[alienhuman]

Great guy. Always the third best CF in NY behind Mantle and Mays. On top in CA and then Mays comes out and makes him the 2nd best CF in CA. RIP sir.

[1257stone]

RIP DUKE

[vivascargill]

Duke!

[ILoveLaraineDay]

I love Laraine Day! She was so beautiful, cheerful, and ladylike!

[OnCloudNine62]

Hold the phone! Where's our regular panel??

[Lennon4life1968]

It must have been hard for the New York audience to see "Centerfield Los Angeles Dodgers"

[switchhitter08]

@Lennon4life1968 At least Jackie Robinson never played in Los Angeles!

[sivvybee]

@switchhitter08 Too bad for him.

[nardopolo36]

whyyy doesnt anyone have the what's my line of Willie Mays????????????????

[MROSEN62]

We of a certain age are still mourning in Brooklyn. However, Duke was happy go home to the left coast even though the Coliseum was not friendly to left-handed power hitters.

[proken58]

This must have been in the winter of 1957-58 from Daly's comment that the Dodgers haven't found a place to play in LA yet. The existing ballpark was small and in a bad part of LA, and they didn't think the Coliseum could be configured for baseball. Somehow, they figured out a way to put a baseball field in the Coliseum, where the team played until Dodger Stadium opened in 1962.

[44032]

This is 1/12/58 per the IMDB.

[chuckharley64]

The woman who guessed correctly was Laraine Day. She was married to Leo Durocher (hence the reference to her husband) and how she knew it was Duke Snider.

[kriegsmark]

I would like to meet a beautiful and intelligent woman who knows baseball like the one who guessed who Duke Snider was.

[Vitte4]

Laraine Day -- who guessed who Duke was -- was known in some quarters as "the first lady of baseball", due to the fact she was married to former Brooklyn Dodger & NY Giant mgr Leo Durocher ('47-'60).

[kriegsmark]

Thanks for the trivia! Laraine Day (died 2007) was one fabulous woman.

[JoeTheCardKid]

i feel bad for duke hes almost dead. i love him =( at least i have his autograph for memory

[Marckymarc71]

Almost dead? He was at Dodger Stadium a few weeks ago coaching the young Dodger prospects, and he looked pretty alive to me.

[JoeTheCardKid]

hes like 80+ years old...........

[mgushulak]

First of all, thanks for putting up these clips from this old show. I'm enjoying them to pieces. What's My Line? is a heck of a lot of fun to watch.

Second, a question: I gather that this episode took place in California, instead of New York like the other episodes. That, I suppose, accounts for the absence of the three regular panelists. Did the show often broadcast from somewhere other than the Big Apple?

[wmbrown6]

There was only one other "on the road" show: on Aug. 12, 1956, from Chicago the day before the Democratic National Convention started. Dorothy, Arlene and Bennett were on that edition, with Dr. Bergen Evans filling up the rest of the panel.

[HowardOfOz]

back when baseball was a game and men played it

[switchhitter08]

@HowardOfOz And long before they made millions of dollars to strike out. Yeah, no wonder why baseball's all screwed up!

[switchhitter08]

@HowardOfOz And real men at that!

[soulierinvestments]

This is from that one WML episode filmed at Television City in Hollywood. Somewhere on YouTube is the mystery guest sequence from this episode -- Bob Cummings.

I don't know what I hate worse from this period -- the paneling background in New York or the curtain background in Hollywood.

[VonCringe]

Laraine Day was married to Leo Durocher at this time (show aired in 1958 - they divorced in 1960). Leo had managed the Dodgers at one time, lived in Southern California, and kept close to many ballplayers. I believe at the time of this show Leo was announcing games for NBC, but by the early '60s he was a coach for the Dodgers again under Walter Alston.