A slugger in the batter’s box and an icon in the broadcast booth, Ralph Kiner spent more than a half-century calling games for the New York Mets, a run that made him not just a familiar face and voice (and master of malapropisms), but a civic treasure in the big city. Ralph Kiner died at age 91 on Feb. 6, a loss that was followed by the deaths of Frank Cashen and Don Zimmer, two other men who had a major impact on New York baseball history. RELATED: SOOT ZIMMER REMEMBERS DON ZIMMER RELATED: GARY THORNE REMEMBERS RALPH KINER RELATED: RON DARLING REMEMBERS FRANK CASHEN RELATED: RON LIPTON REMEMBERS HURRICANE CARTER The sports world said many other goodbyes in 2014. Here are some of the most notable among them: Jan. 5, Eusebio da Silva Fereira: Nicknamed The Black Panther and The Black Pearl or o Rei (The King), Eusebio was born into poverty in Mozambique in 1942, then became a immense pro soccer star in Portugal, an athletic and dazzlingly skilled forward who was widely regarded as one of the premier soccer players of all-time. Jan. 5, Jerry Coleman: The AL Rookie of the Year in 1949 and an All-Star… Read full this story
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