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...another deal last week, the free-handed Pirates boosted Home-Run King Ralph Kiner's salary to $65,000 a year, making him the National League's highest-paid player...
...good spanking for Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, was recommended by the Sunday Pictorial, a London tabloid, because "her behavior in breaking off engagements has become as silly as a schoolboy smoking cigars." Meanwhile, in Hollywood, beautiful Elizabeth had a date with a new fellow: Home Run Slugger Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates...
Although the Boston Red Sox's slugging Ted Williams spends more time practicing before mirrors, Kiner is easily the most thorough and scientific hitter in the game today. In his room, he keeps a complete card-index file showing what type of ball each opposing pitcher has thrown him all season...
Another aid to Kiner's hitting is his movie camera and projector. Part of his homework is studying slow-motion pictures of himself at bat, looking for telltale hitches, lunges and hesitations. At the first sign of any break in his smooth-flowing style he goes to work on himself. Unlike most contemporary sluggers, Kiner digs into a wide-legged stance at the plate and takes almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into...
...Gold Trinkets. Kiner, who lives with his widowed mother in California in the offseason, spent three seasons in the minors (at Albany and Toronto), then went off to hunt enemy submarines as a Navy PBM pilot. In 1946, as a rookie with the Pirates, he led the National League in homers with 23. With some instruction from his roommate, Hank Greenberg (58 home runs with Detroit in 1938), he boosted his home-run production to 51 the following year-and his salary from $10,000 to $30,000. With that he could afford to buy his mother a new home...