[Doogle]

RIP Mr Kiner

[C19fan]

Remember when he broadcast Mets games and has his Kiner’s Corner post-game show.

[Vigilanteman]

One of the lesser known Hall of Famers, but still very much loved in Pittsburgh. He was one of the bright stars when Pittsburgh was a perennial door mat during those long years between when the Warner Brothers and Pie Traynor retired and that fabulous 1960 World Championship team.There were 33 long years between post season appearances.

[qam1]

He was great as a Mets broadcaster.

He even was doing some games this past season. He will be missed.

RIP Ralph

[Dr. Sivana]

His numbers look very, very good when you compare him to his peers. Guys like Willie Mays and Frank Robinson were better hitters, but the pickings get real lean as that was a pitcher’s decade.

[dennisw]

Old school. I remember him!

[IrishBrigade]

RIP Mr Kiner...

...indeed...loved Kiner from the start of his Mets broadcasting career...I only remember the last few years of his playing days...but loved the original trio of Kiner, Lindsay Nelson, and Bob Murphy doing the awful Mets games back in the early sixties...

[LdSentinal]

RIP.

I thought he would live forever.

[tflabo]

I didn’t even know He was still alive. Used to watch the Mets broadcasts back in the late 60’s-70’s. Kiner was teamed with Lindsay Nelson and Bob Murphy. Kiner knew his baseball but the other two were just along for the ride.

[tflabo]

Hey old Mets fans-—this should bring back memories...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwtc2bVmsDM

[dead]

I got drunk with Ralph Kiner and a buddy of mine in the Shea stadium media bar after a game one night. Drank with him until about 2 in the morning. I guess he thought we were supposed to be there, though we had snuck in and partook of hours of free booze. My friend had a really big camera, I think that's how it happened.

Bob Murphy was there too, but left after an hour. Ralph was really funny and opinionated! At that time, he thought Shawn Dunston was the best player in baseball and that's one of the things we argued about.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I remember him well from my childhood, as the announcer for the Mets. I was not a fanatic fan, during the 60’s it was hard not to regard the Mets as jokes, esp next to the fabled Yankees. But this was a guy whose name is synonymous with baseball maybe only a notch below Mantle and Ruth.

[o-n-money]

He once dated Liz Taylor.

[zeestephen]

I used to listen to Bob Elson and Ralph Kiner broadcast White Sox games on WFTL in Fort Lauderdale in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.

[Wiggins]

Ralph was also a US Navy pilot in the pacific theater during WWII. 1943-45. RIP Ralph.

[Libloather]

[Portcall24]

Was a Navy pilot in WWII.

[onedoug]

What must it be like for an old player to not be able to play anymore?

I’m 64 and still in “practice shape” as opposed to playing shape. But it’s enough to still be able to throw and hit. And I love to pitch, albeit if I hit 60 these days, well.... But man, to yet paint those corners....

RIP Ralph Kiner. Hopefully I might work my way into a pick-up game in Heaven with you and some of the guys.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[over3Owithabrain]

I was a little boy in the early 70s, listening to Ralph on my transistor radio tucked under my pillow after bedtime. It seemed like magic to me, following the Mets play far away in the dark of night. It is such a sweet memory. Thanks Ralph