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In college, Tony Gwynn read Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams' how-to book, The Science of Hitting. It must have made an impression.

As a left fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians in the 1940s and 1950s, Ralph Kiner was one of baseball's greatest power hitters. Kiner, who died on Feb. 6 at age 91 in Rancho Mirage, Calif., led the National League in home runs seven straight times, and once…