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Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder
Dead
Born: 9/9/1919 in Steubenville, Ohio, USADied: 4/21/1996
Age: 76
Cause of death: heart failure
Full name: Dimetrios Georgos Synodinos
Noted For: sports oddsmaker. Fired by CBS as a commentator for saying in an interview that blacks were better athletes because of slavery.
Quotation: "The slave owner would breed this big black with this big black woman so he could have a big black kid. That's where it all started."
