Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson had nearly 3,000 hits and won 16 Gold Gloves during his 23-year career.
“Brooks was maybe the last guy to get into the clubhouse the day of the game, but he would be the first guy on the field,” former Orioles manager Earl Weaver said. “He’d be taking his groundballs, and we’d all go, ‘Why does Brooks have to take any groundballs?’
He jockeyed between the majors and minors until July 1959, when he stuck around in Baltimore for good. Many Orioles rooters who never got to see Robinson play still were able to enjoy his observations as he was part of team broadcasts. In Game 1, Robinson delivered the tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning. One inning earlier, he made a sensational backhanded grab of a hard grounder hit down the line by Lee May, spun around in foul territory and somehow threw out the runner.
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