This was late one San Francisco night, years ago, and Ralph Kiner was well into ... For years upon years upon years it was Kiner, Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson broadcasting Mets games and it ...

As part of a nostalgic final week as a full-time Met broadcaster, the retiring Bob Murphy ... to,” Murphy said. Not only will Murphy and Kiner – who along with Lindsey Nelson formed the ...

Ralph Kiner’s 1953 Topps baseball card ... Kiner originally teamed with Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson; from 1962 through 1978 the trio called Mets games from the team’s debut under Casey ...

Ralph Kiner went to Florida after the 1970 season ... added on-the-job experience to the broadcasting team of Lindsey Nelson and Murphy. He was always quick to offer analysis or an off-the cuff ...

So Ralph Kiner, a home run hitter and a broadcaster and one of the best storytellers and characters baseball will ever know, does not make it to one more Mets season, after being around for all of ...

Ralph Kiner the baseball slugger believed ... player on the team’s first announcing team, along with Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson, he gave the franchise a credibility it otherwise lacked.

Ralph Kiner spent more than a half-century ... who was in the original broadcasting crew with the late Lindsey Nelson and the late Bob Murphy. Darling and Keith Hernandez first encountered him ...

For Mets fans of a certain age, Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner and Lindsey Nelson forever will be the voices of their youths - a trio that reigned on TV and radio for the franchise's first 17 seasons.

Mets announcers Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling wear nostalgic attire as a tribute to the original broadcast trio of Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, and Ralph Kiner.

"Photos: Honoring Pirates legend Ralph KinerKiner became a Mets announcer in their expansion season of 1962, working 17 years as a trio with Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson. Kiner called their games ...