Ralph kiner net worth

Ralph Kiner was baseball’s leading home-run hitter for a few years after World War II. As a broadcaster for the New York Mets, he became famous for his verbal strikeouts. Although best remembered for his long career behind the mike, he still ranks as one of the premier sluggers in baseball history.

Ralph McPherran Kiner was born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, on October 27, His mother, Beatrice Grayson, came from Oregon and had served as a nurse in France during World War I.

His father, Ralph Macklin Kiner, was a baker. He died when Ralph was 4. The widowed Mrs. Kiner took a job in Alhambra, California, near Los Angeles.

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Ralph said he developed his baseball skills by playing year-round in the sunny climate and was encouraged by a neighbor who befriended the fatherless boy. He played shortstop for a youth team sponsored by the Yankees, but Pittsburgh scout Hollis Thurston convinced Kiner that the Pirates offered him a better opportunity than the talent-rich Yanks.

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