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Ralph Kiner

Birthdate:

10/27/1922

Height / Weight:

6' 2" / 195 lbs.

Place of Birth:

Santa Rita, NM, USA

Bats / Throws:

R / R

Baseball Historian Biography

Popular home run slugger of the 1940's and 1950's. Kiner electrified baseball fans by crashing homers. Ralph Kiner led or tied for the league in his first seven years in the big leagues; the only player in history to do so. Kiner ranks second to Babe Ruth for the highest number of homers per time at bat. He hit 13 career grand-slams and three times clubbed 3 homers in one game. Hall of Famer played only 10 years but still whacked 369 home runs and posted 1015 RBI's and walked 1011 times with a lifetime batting of .279. Kiner spent 1943-45 in the military. The Pirates retired his #4 uniform number. After he retired from baseball Kiner spent many years as a broadcaster on radio and TV

During the 1900s Ralph Kiner ranked second in homers to Babe Ruth . But, with the smaller ballparks as we enter the 2000s, Kiner ranking is falling into 7th or 8th.

Pitching Statistics

Year	Team	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	HBP	BK	ERA
11 years		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00

Batting Statistics

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	IBB	HBP	SH	SF	AVG	OBP	SLG
1946	PIT (NL)	144	502	63	124	17	3	23	81	74	109	3	0	0	1	2	0	.247	.345	SLG
1947	PIT (NL)	152	565	118	177	23	4	51	127	98	81	1	0	0	2	1	0	.313	.417	SLG
1948	PIT (NL)	156	555	104	147	19	5	40	123	112	61	1	0	0	3	0	0	.265	.391	SLG
1949	PIT (NL)	152	549	116	170	19	5	54	127	117	61	6	0	0	1	0	0	.310	.432	SLG
1950	PIT (NL)	150	547	112	149	21	6	47	118	122	79	2	0	0	3	0	0	.272	.408	SLG
1951	PIT (NL)	151	531	124	164	31	6	42	109	137	57	2	1	0	2	0	0	.309	.452	SLG
1952	PIT (NL)	149	516	90	126	17	2	37	87	110	77	3	0	0	7	0	0	.244	.384	SLG
1953	CHC (NL)	117	414	73	117	14	2	28	87	75	67	1	1	0	1	1	0	.283	.394	SLG
1953	PIT (NL)	41	148	27	40	6	1	7	29	25	21	1	0	0	2	0	0	.270	.383	SLG
1954	CHC (NL)	147	557	88	159	36	5	22	73	76	90	2	0	0	2	5	3	.285	.371	SLG
1955	CLE (AL)	113	321	56	78	13	0	18	54	65	46	0	0	1	0	0	4	.243	.367	SLG
11 years		1472	5205	971	1451	216	39	369	1015	1011	749	22	2	1	24	9	7	.279	.398	.SLG

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