Editing Duke Snider (section)

==Later life==
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|Year   = 1980
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Following his retirement from baseball, Snider became a popular and respected TV/radio analyst and play-by-play announcer for the [[San Diego Padres]] from 1969 to 1971 and for the [[Montreal Expos]] from 1973 to 1986. He was characterized by a mellow, low-key style.

Snider occasionally took acting roles, sometimes appearing in television or films as himself or as a professional baseball player. He played himself in "Hero Father" (1956) in the Robert Young television series ''[[Father Knows Best]]'', made one guest appearance on the [[Chuck Connors]] television series ''[[The Rifleman]]'', and played Wallace in ''The Retired Gun'' (1959). Other appearances include an uncredited part as a Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder in ''[[The Geisha Boy]]'' (1958), the Cranker in ''[[The Trouble with Girls (film)|The Trouble with Girls]]'' (1969), and a Steamer Fan in ''[[Pastime]]'' (1990). As recently as 2007, he was featured in ''[[Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts of Flatbush]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.therifleman.net/episodes/epi.asp?yrid=1&epid=17|title=The Rifleman – The Retired Gun, Episode 17, Season 1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302004042/http://www.therifleman.net/episodes/epi.asp?yrid=1&epid=17|archive-date=2012-03-02}}</ref>
 
In 1995, Snider and [[Willie McCovey]] pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud charges after they had failed to report income from sports card shows and memorabilia sales.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n31_v219/ai_17352518/pg_1 | work=The Sporting News | first=Mike | last=Lupica | title=The Duke muffs an easy one | year=1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60610F93F5D0C728EDDAE0894DD494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fM%2fMemorabilia | work=The New York Times | first=Joe | last=Sexton | title=Tax Fraud: Two Baseball Legends Say It's So | date=July 21, 1995}}</ref> Snider admitted to intentionally failing to report $100,000 of income between 1984 and 1993, and said he did it because he needed the money after failed investments depleted his savings.<ref name="Mueller">{{cite news |last=Mueller |first=Rich |date=January 18, 2017 |title=McCovey, Snider Pardoned for Autograph Show Tax Evasion |url=https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/mccovey-snider-pardoned-autograph-show-tax-evasion/ |work=Sports Collectors Daily |location=Evansville, IN}}</ref> Snider paid $30,000 in back taxes and a $5,000 fine, and was sentenced to two years of probation.<ref name="Reyes">{{cite news |last=Reyes |first=Ernest |date=January 18, 2017 |title=Duke Snider Received a Presidential Pardon Yesterday |url=https://www.dodgersblueheaven.com/2017/01/duke-snider-received-presidential.html |work=Dodgers Blue Heaven |location=Irvine, CA}}</ref> McCovey also paid a fine and was sentenced to probation.<ref name="Reyes"/> In 2017, President [[Barack Obama]] issued pardons for Snider and McCovey.<ref name="Mueller"/>

Snider was featured, along with [[Mickey Mantle]] and [[Willie Mays]], in the 1981 song "[[Talkin' Baseball]]" by [[Terry Cashman]].

He was elected to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame|Baseball Hall of Fame]] in 1980. That same year, in a ceremony at [[Dodger Stadium]], Snider's jersery number 4 was retired by the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dodgers Retired Numbers|website=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]]|url=https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/history/retired-numbers}}</ref> In 1999, ''[[The Sporting News]]'' placed Snider at number 83 on their list of "100 Greatest Players".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players|magazine=[[The Sporting News]]|date=April 26, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050416222917/http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-83.html |archive-date=April 16, 2005 |url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-83.html}}</ref> He was a nominee for the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]].

Snider married Beverly Null in 1947; they had four children.

Snider died on February 27, 2011, at age 84 of an undisclosed illness at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in [[Escondido, California]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/sports/baseball/28snider.html?ref=baseball&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | first1=Richard | last1=Goldstein | first2=Bruce | last2=Weber | title=Duke Snider, a Prince of New York's Golden Age of Baseball, Dies at 84 | date=February 27, 2011}}</ref> He was the last living Brooklyn Dodger who was on the field for the final out of the 1955 World Series.

In 2013, the [[Bob Feller Act of Valor Award]] honored Snider as one of 37 Baseball Hall of Fame members for his service in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/|title=WWII HOF Players – Act of Valor Award|access-date=2021-08-11|archive-date=2021-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008204152/https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/|url-status=dead}}</ref>