Profile
Ralph Kiner
Baseball Player
Male
Born
Oct 27, 1922
Age
90
Team
Pittsburgh Pirate...
Position
Left fielder
Ralph McPherran Kiner is an American former Major League Baseball player and has been an announcer for the New York Mets since the team's inception. Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1922
Birth
Born on October 27, 1922.
TWENTIES
Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced nearly all of his National League contemporaries between the years 1946 and 1954.
1947
24 Years Old
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He holds (by himself) the major league record of eight home runs in four consecutive multi-homer games, a mark that he set in September 1947.
1951
28 Years Old
A quote variously attributed to Kiner himself, as well as to teammates talking about Kiner, was "Home run hitters drive Cadillacs and singles hitters drive Fords." Footage of Kiner hitting a homer in Forbes Field can be seen in the 1951 film, Angels in the Outfield.
THIRTIES
On June 4, 1953, Kiner was sent to the Chicago Cubs as part of a ten-player trade.
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FIFTIES
LATE ADULTHOOD
2007
84 Years Old
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The Mets honored him with an on-field ceremony on "Ralph Kiner Night" at Shea Stadium on Saturday, July 14, 2007.
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2011
88 Years Old
Through 2011 he was one of seven major leaguers to have had at least four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, along with Chuck Klein, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Mark Teixeira, Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard and Ryan Braun. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/howarry01.shtml
2012
89 Years Old
Despite a bout with Bell's palsy, which left him with slightly slurred speech, Kiner is still broadcasting, entering his 51st year of doing Mets broadcasts as of the start of the 2012 baseball season, though only as an occasional guest analyst.
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