Bob Fulton, who attended many Pirates games at Forbes Field as a youngster and later covered the team as a newspaper reporter, has written two books about the Pirates, the most recent “Burial at Home Plate: An Oddball History of the Pittsburgh Pirates."
Ralph Kiner and the FBI
Though he was regarded as one of the most fearsome sluggers in Major League Baseball, Ralph Kiner did step aside once for a “pinch hitter.” An FBI agent. The Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder was the focus of an extortion plot in the summer of 1952. He was instructed in a letter to deliver $6,200 to an …