Greg from Faith and Fear in Flushing (he should be on the Mount Rushmore of Mets bloggers since he actually got a book published!) send over this note…it was friendly not a shot at me, a personal email I asked if I could post.
Shannon,
Ralph was just helping out in the offseason. There’s a spread of great
doings in the Florida Instructional League in the 1972 yearbook (the
print edition, that is), and Ralph is right in the middle of it (with
his logo cap and everything).
I’m surprised you never heard of Danny Frisella. He was a splendid
righty complement to Tug in the early ’70s and a master of the
forkball. Was part of the deal that brought Felix Millan to the Mets.
Sadly, he died in a dune buggy accident on New Years Day 1977. (Don’t
they teach this stuff at the Mets Police Academy?).
Take care,
Greg
As for my question yesterday asking if Ralph ever left the booth as was suggested in the NY Times story (scroll down the site) it looks like that never happened.
Paul Lukas who runs the great Uni Watch sent me this link which shows Kiner in uniform. Neat to see him in a Mets uniform.
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