"Drama is where you find it during the World Series. The time: Wednesday afternoon. The locale: First floor, box 71 at Forbes Field. The occupants: Ralph Kiner (with Nancy Chaffee Kiner) and Henry (Hank) Greenberg, two of the greatest sluggers in Pirate history. The one year the two of them played together, in 1947, Kiner, on the way up, hit 51 home runs; Greenberg, on the way down, slammed out 25. They have remained close friends ever since. Having spent all of his lifetime, barring the season of '47, in the American League and presently the vice president of the Chicago White Sox, Greenberg's riding with the Yankees. You don't have to be told where Kiner's sympathies are; the general manager of the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League is still a Pirate through and through."
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Harold V. Cohen, in "The Drama Desk: Conversation Piece" by Cohen, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Friday, October 7, 1960), p. 10 — Comment: For additional excerpts from this article, see quotes by Hank Greenberg and Ralph Kiner in Other teams' personnel.
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