What a strapping young lad.
Featured above are several childhood photos of Dodger Hall of Famer Duke Snider that are currently available for sale through MEARS Auction. Check it out here.
In one of the pics Snider is shown in his Naval uniform. After spending his first season as a Dodger farmhand at the age of 17, Duke joined the military. He served for 19 months. Per an biography at Baseball in Wartime:
"They checked us just enough to make sure we were warm and upright," he explained in his autobiography The Duke of Flatbush, "and a guy handed me some papers I didn't want to know about and screamed 'NAVY!