Quotes

During a typical one-sided Met loss in 1963: The winning run is in the dugout.

See what happens? One date with me and Liz winds up engaged to a millionaire. [circa early April, 1950; regarding the then imminent union of Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton Jr. (their engagement having first been announced roughly two months after Kiner's and Taylor's famously photographed, one-time-only, Bing Crosby-arranged date attending the premiere of Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and the subsequent party in honor of its star Gregory Peck).]

It's going, going ... going to be caught. [July 19, 1985, Shea Stadium, WOR-TV; last-second, improvised variation on the standard home-run call, as per Kiner's belated realization that what looked to be, off the bat, a tie-breaking, fifth-inning, bases-empty blast launched by Atlanta's Ken Oberkfell was, in fact, not only foul but indeed 'going to be caught' by Mets left fielder George Foster.]

If Casey Stengel were still alive, he'd be spinning in his grave.