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Show When the Los Angeles Dodgers retired Duke Snider's No. 4 in ceremonies at an old-timers' old-timers' game prior to the . All-Star Game, one of Snider's biggest fans showed up to honor the slugger . The fan was 7'2" center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers, the pro basketball championship cham-pionship team. In 1956, when Abdul-Jabbar was eight years old and went by the name of Lew Alcindor, he went from his home in the Bronx to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to watch the Dodgers on "Duke Snider Day". He took pictures of Snider and his other Dodger heroes that day. Kareem met' many of those old heroes at the old-timers game and asked them to autograph his photos. He also asked Dodger Manager'Tommy Lasora, who wasn't a Dodger hero, to sign a re- cent photo of himself. "I'll tell you something," Lasorda said. "That autograph may not mean much to you right now, but five years from now, it'll mean even less." |