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Keener's Kiner

Or Corner’s Keener, as it was sometimes known, is making a comeback thanks to SNY.

This is good news, indeed. According to Richard Sandomir:

“Kiner’s Korner” is getting a new life online, providing Mets fans with a chance to see Ralph Kiner in his television heyday as the host of Channel 9’s postgame (and rain delay) show from a cramped studio in Shea Stadium.

Starting Tuesday, SNY.tv. will post the first of nine weekly webisodes that combine clips from Kiner’s postgame interviews and new chats between him and the host Ted Berg for the Mets network’s dip into nostalgia.

“When I’m in town or in the car, people yell out, ‘Kiner’s Korner,’” Kiner said by telephone Friday. “I can’t tell you how many people tell me that they grew up with ‘Kiner’s Korner.’”

The footage that will be seen is about all that is known to have been rediscovered. Only some of it is usable.

Nearly all the “Korners” are gone, tossed out or taped over at a time when few local stations, networks or teams understood the value of a video archive of their history and broadcasts.

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2 comments

1 Mattpat11   ~  Aug 21, 2010 12:27 pm

Well, that's pretty damned awesome

2 Cliff Corcoran   ~  Aug 21, 2010 5:44 pm

Except for the bit about most of the footage being lost.

And yay for Berg being a part of this.

A while back Alex posted a youtube of George Carlin on Kiners Korner. I can't seem to find it now. Good stuff, just two guys talking baseball, really.

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