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02-06-2014, 03:34 PM
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RIP - HOF outfielder Ralph Kiner
Well before my time as a player, but grew up a Mets fan and always looked forward to listening to him - remembering those days fondly today.
http://baseballhall.org/news/press-r...es-away-age-91 
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02-06-2014, 05:29 PM
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Kiners Korner
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02-06-2014, 06:20 PM
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One of the all-time greats. When I first started playing baseball around 1949 (I was 7), I looked up to my older brother who was playing high school baseball at the time. I remember he used to brandish a hugely heavy bat, a Ralph Kiner model, which I could barely lift, let alone swing. Could say that Kiner's name was about the first one I associated MLB with way back then.
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02-06-2014, 08:34 PM
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Who knows how many HR's Kiner would have hit if he played other than in that massive baseball cathedral in Pittsburgh.....
Didn't he date Elizabeth Taylor in the day? A close friend and supporter of Hank Greenberg when others discriminated... Will miss the host of Kiner's Korner who was beloved to his Met fans.....Lindsay Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner; the Hall-of Fame broadcast booth..... RIP, my man !!!!
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"The fans are moving to the rail which can mean only one thing....It is NOW, Post Time" - Fred Capossela
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02-06-2014, 09:04 PM
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Quite a man. Watched hundreds.. thousands.. of WOR games with my dad and so many Kiner's Korners. As a player, an under-rated titan. As a broadcaster, often funny unintentionally, he equally had a great way of presenting baseball's nuances in easy to understand terms. Sad to see him go. Will never be forgotten.
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02-06-2014, 09:06 PM
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As a Met fan, you had to love him. Just so much fun to listen to.
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