September 17, 2008 | 6:30
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Snider hurt; L.A. loses 2
Duke hit by line drive, may miss rest of season.
Above, Lawrence Welk in stereo with "Swinging Pete Fountain," the clarinetist who once said "Champagne and Bourbon Street don't mix."
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By Keith Thursby
Times staff writerScary moment for Duke Snider and the Dodgers. Snider was on third
base in the fifth inning of the Dodgers' game at Cincinnati when he was
struck by a line drive hit by his teammate, Frank Howard.
The Times' Frank Finch wrote that the ball "struck Snider's right
shoulder and then his right ear a glancing blow, dropping him as though
he'd be shot by an elephant gun."
Snider was taken to the hospital but was able to speak to reporters
first. Finch noted that "although he'd escaped serious injury--even
death--by inches, the dapper Snider insisted on showering before he was
driven to the hospital."
"I saw the ball coming off Howard's bat and I tried to duck into it
so that I would take the blow off my plastic helmet," Snider said.
"Boy, he really hit that one."
The game was the nightcap of a doubleheader. The Dodgers lost both games.
keith.thursby@latimes.com
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