I was saddened when I read Brooks Robinson passed away although I never saw him play even on Television. He was one of the greats of the game and a hell of a 3rd baseman. I started to watch...
I was saddened when I read Brooks Robinson passed away although I never saw him play even on Television. He was one of the greats of the game and a hell of a 3rd baseman.
I started to watch baseball in 1977 when I was 10 years old. That was the year the Dodgers went to the World Series and lost to the Yankees. The next year… the same thing…I thought…wow…this baseball is exciting. Little did I know this would not happen every year. A loss in the World Series didn’t feel good but
I remember the Game of the Week and many times it was Baltimore. I don’t remember watching Brooks Robinson because he only played 24 games that year and retired. I did see the clips of the 1970 World Series. Without Robinson, they would not have won that Series from the Reds.
The guy was a wizard at defense and he was a great hitter. He wasn’t a huge home run hitter…he ended up with 268 HRs. That number is great since he spent the prime of his career in the hard-to-hit sixties. He ended up with a 78.4 WAR which is fantastic.
He was 86 years old and I never read a bad word about the guy. In 1983 he was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame at age 46. He won the MVP award in 1964 and was MVP of the 1970 World Series.
There was a saying that stated…Reggie Jackson got candy bars named after him but people in Baltimore named their kids after Brooks Robinson. He played 23 years with Baltimore. Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski share the distinction of the longest tenure with a single team.
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