Ralph Kiner
Ralph Kiner
Ralph McPherran Kinerwas an American Major League Baseball player. An outfielder, Kiner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Indians from 1946 through 1955. He also served as an announcer for the New York Mets from the team's inception until his death. Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced all of his National League contemporaries between the years 1946 and 1952. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 October 1922
CitySanta Rita, NM
CountryUnited States of America
If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.
Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.
On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.
Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs
He's (Bruce Sutter) going to be out of action the rest of his career.
Some guys are inwardly outgoing
[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.