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Hilda Chester may be the only fan to be in the HOF at Cooperstown, NY, I have her autograph one of the rarest autographs in baseball.

Hilda was quite a character.

After a ballgame that saw the Duke go 0h-for-four and the Dodgers lose, Hilda was waiting outside the clubhouse to give Snider the razzberries. After she followed as he walked to his car and laid into him for a few minutes, Snider turned to Hilda and said: "Go home and shave."

Duke was such an sob back in his playing days, not well liked by many even though he was a good player, you could say he was sorta like Teddy ballgame. I doubt Hilda would have done that many other players on the team.

Snider was not a very confident player. He said that until he did well in the 1952 world series he didn't consider himself a real major league player. He also had spoiled child syndrome, and couldn't take any criticism. He also didn't react very well to adversity.

All that may be true, but in 1980, the Duke was enshrined into immortality..........................

He wasn't enshrined for his personality and humility. Lets face it a team full of Snider's would not have won pennants.

Cobb and Ruth (just to name 2) had much worse personal qualities than the Duke.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hilda_Chester

http://www.baseballreliquary.org/HildaChester.htm

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1871123/

Very interesting. She adopted the cowbell after a heart attack as an alternate means of making noise and appeared in a couple of movies.

Thanks for the links CC, Hilda was quite the character, I'm sorry I was to young to know her in her heyday.