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Sad News for Mets fans: Kiner Passes Away at Age 91

grote15grote15 Posts: 29,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Really sad news..I listened to Ralph my entire life...

Kiner


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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,608 ✭✭✭✭
    Sad. I also grew up watching Kiner broadcast Mets games and interview players for Kiner's Korner. He's very underrated as a player. Had he not gotten hurt, he probably would have flown past 500 HRs. RIP.
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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Really sad news..I listened to Ralph my entire life...

    Kiner >>



    Agreed. Another piece of our history is gone. image
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

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  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭
    Kiner's Korner.

    :-(

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  • aconteaconte Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭
    RIP!

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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just got an email from the Mets with a nice clip and article. The latter part of the piece provides some classic Kinerism moments, LOL..



    "Hi everybody, welcome to Kiner's Korner, I'm Ralph Korner.."


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  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just got an email from the Mets with a nice clip and article. The latter part of the piece provides some classic Kinerism moments, LOL..



    "Hi everybody, welcome to Kiner's Korner, I'm Ralph Korner.." >>



    That was a great read. Thanks for posting.

    Listening to the Mets on a transistor radio was a huge part of my childhood.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Sad. I also grew up watching Kiner broadcast Mets games and interview players for Kiner's Korner. He's very underrated as a player. >>


    He led the NL in HRs SEVEN YEARS IN A ROW! More years in a row than any man. Ruth led the AL SIX years in a row.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just got an email from the Mets with a nice clip and article. >>



    Nice that they sent that out to former players. image
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • robert67robert67 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭✭
    RIP.

    Heard him a few times on broadcasts and he was very entertaining.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,711 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Just got an email from the Mets with a nice clip and article. >>



    Nice that they sent that out to former players. image >>



    LMAO


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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Always enjoyed the Chan.9 in New York Met game coverage. Especially Doubleheader days. A double dose of Kiner,Murphy, and Nelson. Remember DH?
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  • bumpskierbumpskier Posts: 65 ✭✭
    And Ralph was quite the swordsman. He was the Derek Jeter of this day.

    http://metspolice.com/2011/03/13/truly-appreciating-ralph-kiner-but-not-why-you-think/
  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Always enjoyed the Chan.9 in New York Met game coverage. Especially Doubleheader days. A double dose of Kiner,Murphy, and Nelson. Remember DH? >>



    Yes, a scheduled DH...the Mets had about 3 during the year
  • MiniDuffMiniDuff Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭
    Very sad. Ralph, Bob and Lindsay all gone now and their kind will never return. The days of free tv and kids listening to games glued to the radio are done, but I will cherish them.

    I still remember muting McCarver on the TV and listening to Murphy instead. The three of them were great.

    Rest in peace.
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  • heritageheritage Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭
    Sad news, RIP Mr Kiner..
  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭
    In spite of being a Braves fan, I watch a lot of Mets games because I like their broadcast crew and I was always happy when Ralph dropped by and sat in for a few innings. A warm and comfortable presence, a fabulous player and a generally wonderful man.

    I was unaware of the stuff about Elizabeth Taylor and Ava Gardner. HR crowns are cool and all but that's at least equally impressive.
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  • BruceinGaBruceinGa Posts: 270 ✭✭
    A couple of months ago I bought several Baseball Magazine Player Posters on eBay. Ralph Kiner's 1947 player poster happened to be one of them. It's strange that his is the only one that I have framed to date. I never knew much about him as he was a little before my time. RIP

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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great clip of Kiner and McCarver singing Summer Wind by Sinatra in the WOR booth before a game in 1990.

    Kiner


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  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
    I think Kiner may have been the prototype for the big swinging power hitter of today.... that is, go for the seats evey at bat. Tremendous power. I know a lot of folks will say that it was Babe Ruth, and that is a very fair argument. But Babe Ruth's lifetime batting average was .342. Like George Herman Ruth declared (paraphrasing) "I could hit .400 every year....but people don't pay to see me hit singles." You know what? I beleive him. Without question, the GREATEST player in any sport in any era. But back to the topic at hand, RIP Mr. Kiner. You won't be soon forgotten.
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those 3 announcers had a unique chemistry, each with their own style. And any 2 of the 3 together at any given time, meshed very well with each other. Never any sense of one upmanship between them. Just as an aside continuing the trip down memory lane, Lindsey wore some loud and wild sports jackets. This predated the Craig Sager era of wild jackets. Lindsey also announced football games in his day.
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