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...Ralph Kiner (Hall of Fame slugger): "Sosa is more apt to swing at bad pitches. McGwire would be the tougher one. He is more disciplined...
More numerous are the power men who shone in unjoyful ages and in the half-light of provincial parks. Hack Wilson hit 58, but in 1930 Chicago wasn't ready to party. Ralph Kiner flattened balls, but did so in Pittsburgh, which is the Big City only if you're in Cincinnati...where Frank Robinson was huge, before he went to (equally frowzy) Baltimore. You get the idea: it's an uncommon man at an odd moment who can play in the league we're speaking...
...Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy; Jon was Phil Rizzutto, Frank Messer, and Bill White...
...control is better than Feller's." A big leaguer at 17, Feller was Gooden's age before he found the plate. "Go up and hit what you see," Bucky Harris used to advise his Washington Senators, "and if you don't see it, come on back." Ralph Kiner, the Mets' announcer, nee '40s slugger, testifies, "No question about it, Feller was faster." But Gooden, he says, has the more advanced "control" and "command...
...Tony Cuccinello and Johnny Dickshot in 1945 27)Dale Alexander and Harry Walker 28)Ernie Lombardi, Bill Madlock and Rod Carew 29)Bobby Avila 30)Al Kaline and Ted Williams 31)Alex Johnson, Tony Oliva and George Brett 32)Mickey Mantle and Pete Rose 33)Ralph Kiner 34)Eddie Mathews 35)Jim Ray Hart 36)Wes Ferrell 37)Stan Musial 38)Jim Hickman...