Remembering the Giants hard-drinking slugger Jim Ray Hart
3 min readFeb 10, 2021
“You could have your back turned and not see the hitter, and when that ball came off Jimmy Ray’s bat, it made a different sound.” — teammate Jack Hiatt
Jim Ray Hart played the game of baseball in a form of isolation because he was not very educated and he had an unfortunate speech impediment that made him embarrassed to start or join a conversation. But he was, as…