Duke Snider died on Sunday...

...and there was a charming piece in the Times about when he and his family actually lived in Brooklyn, in the 1950s. The Sniders rented a house there, went to block parties, and the Duke himself signed autographs for the kids in the neighborhood. Like I said, charming. (I can almost picture Snider holding a can of beer while flipping burgers on a Weber grill.)

But what really caught my attention was this:

Mr. Snider and a few of his teammates who lived in the neighborhood — like Pee Wee Reese or Carl Erskine — would car-pool together to their home games at Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds, where their National League rivals, the New York Giants, played.

Can you imagine Major League baseball players today car-pooling? Can you imagine anyone car-pooling?