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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

No need for me to look Kiner up. The first baseball bat I ever picked up (around 1950 or so) was my older brother's Ralph Kiner model Louisville Slugger. Damn thing had a narrow handle and a huge head, like a war club!
Heavy as hell. We were Brooklyn Dodger fans, but respected Kiner, who used to kill the Dodgers.

Of course, he later became a NY Mets announcer (maybe still is), but the last time I heard him, he sounded like he had marbles in his mouth. Guess he's in his mid-80's, right?


Ocala Mike

Mike, he will be 90 this Oct...

Despite a bout with Bell's palsy, which left him with slightly slurred speech, Kiner is still broadcasting, entering his fiftieth year of doing Mets broadcasts as of the start of the 2011 baseball season, though only as an occasional guest analyst..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Kiner