Yes, that was Dave Kingman — the mighty and mercurial slugger — signing free autographs for nearly two hours as part of a Father’s Day promotion.

Kingman retired from baseball after 1986 or, as he tells it, baseball retired him. He hit 35 home runs and drove in 94 runs during his final season with the A's.

Dave Kingman was, without question, a one-tool player throughout his 16-year major league career. Kong didn't hit for average, he didn't run, he didn't competently field any position, and his on ...

Dave “King Kong” Kingman of the Chicago Cubs blasts his ninth career grand slam in the eighth inning against the New York Mets in Chicago, April 19, 1980.

After my little note about the year Dave Kingman led the National League in home runs and still finished 24th in the league in slugging percentage, my colleague Joe DeMartino suggested I look up ...

And so it is, then, that we turn our attention to the 2010 Dave Kingman Award, with an eye towards determining, once again, who in Major League Baseball more than any other player was truly doing ...

Dave Kingman, then with the Athletics, was 37 years old and playing in what would be his final season. He was fined $3,500, which is a little over $7,600 in 2016 dollars, for sending a live rat in a ...

Dave Kingman is congratulated by teammates Manny Trillo, left, and Bill Buckner at home plate in the sixth inning after Kingman hit his first of three home runs against the Los Angeles Dodgers May ...

A two-bedroom condominium unit in the Gold Coast that onetime Chicago Cubs slugger Dave Kingman owned from 1978 until 1985 sold Sept. 20 for $410,000. Now living near Lake Tahoe in Nevada, Kingman,… ...

I stumbled across this: Hardball And Kingman. Excerpts below from a long entertaining piece you should check out. "I readily admit that I am disturbingly fascinated by Dave Kingman—more ...

But Ortiz also passed Dave Kingman for the most homers ever by a major league player in his final season. At age 37, Kingman hit 35 homers for the Oakland Athletics in 1986.

Kingman hit .288/.343/.613 with an astounding 48 home runs. But while his OPS+ was strong in 1980, his health limited him to just 280 plate appearances. As a result, Kingman was traded again.