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=== 1955 MVP balloting controversy === Snider finished second to teammate [[Roy Campanella]] in the 1955 Most Valuable Player (MVP) balloting conducted by the [[Baseball Writers' Association of America]]. He trailed Campanella by just five points, 226β221, with each man receiving eight first-place votes. A widely believed story, summarized in an article by columnist [[Tracy Ringolsby]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/duke-snider-dodgers-an-overlooked-great-of-baseballs-golden-era-022711|title=Ringolsby: Don't forget the Duke|author=Fox Sports|work=FOX Sports}}</ref> holds that a hospitalized writer from [[Philadelphia]] had turned in a ballot with Campanella listed as his first-place and fifth-place vote. It was assumed that the writer had meant to write Snider's name into one of those slots. Unable to get a clarification from the ill writer, the BBWAA considered disallowing the ballot but decided to accept it, counting the first-place vote for Campanella and counting the fifth-place vote as though it were left blank. Had the ballot been disallowed, the vote would have been won by Snider 221β212. Had Snider gotten that now-blank fifth-place vote, the final vote would have favored Snider 227β226. Sportswriter [[Joe Posnanski]], however, has suggested that this story is not entirely true.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/03/02/1955-mvp-a-detective-story/ |title=Joe Posnanski Β» Posts 1955 MVP: A Detective Story Β« |access-date=2011-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305070119/http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/03/02/1955-mvp-a-detective-story/ |archive-date=2011-03-05 }}</ref> Posnanski writes that there was a writer who ''did'' leave Snider off his ballot and write in Campanella's name twice, but it was in first and sixth positions, not first and fifth. Had Snider received the sixth place vote, the final tally would have created a tie, not a win for Snider. Additionally, the position wasn't discarded β everyone lower on the ballot was moved up a spot, and pitcher [[Jack Meyer]] was inserted at the bottom with a 10th place vote. Snider did win the [[Sporting News]] National League Player of the Year Award for 1955, and the Sid Mercer Award, emblematic of his selection by the New York branch of the BBWAA as the National League's best player of 1955.<ref>''The Duke of Flatbush'' by Duke Snider and Bill Gilbert</ref>
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