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Ralph Kiner
	Ralph McPherran Kiner


	Born: October 27, 1922 in Santa Rita, NM
	90 years old
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 6'2"	Wt: 195

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:
- Inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Player in 1975
- Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an Amateur Free Agent in 1941
- Served in the USNAC during World War II
- High School: Alhambra (Alhambra, CA)

Comparison

Left Fielders				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Mil	NgLg	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Stan Musial	1941 - 1963	LF	128.1	Pl	WW2		124.7	-9.3	0.0	-12.7
2	Ted Williams	1939 - 1960	LF	123.2	Pl	WW2/KOR		126.3	-13.3	0.0	-10.2
3	Minnie Minoso	1949 - 1980	LF	50.2			Y	47.6	-5.7	0.0	-8.3
4	Ralph Kiner	1946 - 1955	LF	49.4	Pl	WW2		54.3	-10.8	0.0	-5.9
5	Charlie Keller	1939 - 1952	LF	43.0		WW2		39.0	-0.8	0.0	-4.9
6	Sid Gordon	1941 - 1955	LF	38.3		WW2		38.8	-4.5	0.0	-4.0
7	Gene Woodling	1943 - 1962	LF	32.7		WW2		33.7	-8.6	0.0	-7.5
8	Del Ennis	1946 - 1959	LF	31.2		WW2		36.6	-13.4	0.0	-8.0
9	Hank Sauer	1941 - 1959	LF	25.9		WW2		28.6	-8.1	0.0	-5.4
10	Monte Irvin	1949 - 1956	LF	21.4	Pl	WW2	Y	17.4	1.2	0.0	-2.8
11	Charlie Maxwell	1950 - 1964	LF	19.6				16.0	-0.9	0.0	-4.5
12	Danny Litwhiler	1940 - 1951	LF	19.3		WW2		17.7	-2.9	0.0	-4.5
13	Dale Mitchell	1946 - 1956	LF	19.1		WW2		17.5	-2.8	0.0	-4.4
14	Whitey Lockman	1945 - 1960	LF	17.6		WW2		17.6	-6.0	0.0	-6.0
15	Jim Russell	1942 - 1951	LF	17.0				16.2	-2.2	0.0	-3.0
16	Dick Wakefield	1941 - 1952	LF	13.3		WW2		13.9	-3.6	0.0	-2.9
17	Peanuts Lowrey	1942 - 1955	LF	12.2		WW2		11.4	-1.8	0.0	-2.6
18	Gus Zernial	1949 - 1959	LF	9.6		WW2		14.1	-9.6	0.0	-5.1
19	Bud Stewart	1941 - 1954	LF	5.3		WW2		5.3	-2.5	0.0	-2.5
20	Mike McCormick	1940 - 1951	LF	4.6		WW2		3.5	-0.9	0.0	-2.0
21	Don Lenhardt	1950 - 1954	LF	4.0		WW2		5.5	-3.5	0.0	-2.0
22	George Shuba	1948 - 1955	LF	3.0				3.1	-1.0	0.0	-0.9
23	Gil Coan	1946 - 1956	LF	2.0				1.5	-2.8	0.0	-3.4
24	Luis Olmo	1943 - 1951	LF	1.8				4.8	-3.6	0.0	-0.7
25	Erv Dusak	1941 - 1952	LF	1.7		WW2		1.8	-0.8	0.1	-0.7
26	Steve Souchock	1946 - 1955	LF	1.7		WW2		2.2	-2.2	0.0	-1.7
27	Clyde Vollmer	1942 - 1954	LF	1.7		WW2		2.4	-2.6	0.0	-1.9
28	Clarence Maddern	1946 - 1951	LF	0.1		WW2		0.2	-0.4	0.0	-0.3
29	Jesse Levan	1947 - 1955	LF	0.0				-0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.0
30	Hal Rice	1948 - 1954	LF	-0.4		WW2		0.1	-1.8	0.0	-1.3
31	Larry Miggins	1948 - 1952	LF	-0.5		WW2		-0.3	-0.4	0.0	-0.1
32	Babe Martin	1944 - 1953	LF	-0.6		WW2		-1.1	0.1	0.0	-0.3
33	Jackie Mayo	1948 - 1953	LF	-1.1		WW2		-0.8	-0.6	0.0	-0.3
34	Don Thompson	1949 - 1954	LF	-1.6				-1.5	-0.7	0.0	-0.5
35	Ken Wood	1948 - 1953	LF	-3.3		WW2		-1.8	-2.8	0.0	-1.3

	Ralph Kiner	1946 - 1955	LF	49.4	Pl	WW2		54.3	-10.8	0.0	-5.9

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James