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yes so glad the reds "coveted" Jack Baldschun" he was about as effective as Ben Hayes
Robinson as viewed through his baseball cards.
https://tht.fangraphs.com/card-corne...obinson-story/
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Nice article about Robby
https://www.jewishpress.com/sections...on/2020/02/02/Frank Robinson died of bone cancer last February in Los Angeles at age 83.
I caught up with him one summer evening in Rochester in 1978. Robinson had seen me several times on the baseball beat, but this was the first time we spent time together and spoke at length. We enjoyed his managerial office while his team took batting practice. He was intelligent and a commanding presence, though much softer than his reputation as a player.
I told him the first time I’d seen him play in person was in Cincinnati in 1963, the year Pete Rose was a rookie for the Reds. He told me he mentored Rose.
“From the first day when Pete came into spring training, he was a hustler. That’s why he got the name Charley Hustle, and he really worked hard and hustled his way onto the Reds in ’63,” Frank recalled. “I don’t think anyone in those days looked at Pete as someone who would be a special player for a long time. You have to give Pete credit, as he didn’t have natural ability. He was a student of the game and a hard worker. He really knew how to hit, and became very popular with the hometown fans as he was from Cincinnati.”
Robinson told me that the happiest years of his career were the 10 years he spent with Cincinnati. “They were enjoyable years,” he said, “especially being on the ‘61 Reds and getting to the World Series against the Yankees.” Robinson was the National League’s MVP in 1961 after posting a batting average of .323, 37 home runs, and 124 RBIs.
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That's interesting he would say that being in Cincinnati was the happiest time of his career. I would think being in Baltimore would have been a happier time for him. Winning the Triple Crown, World Championships in 1966 and 1970 - the latter against the team that traded him. But happiness is subjective, I suppose.
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I think that in Baltimore he had a bit of this and that... 1966 he was a man possessed, still angry at DeWitt. 1967 he got injured and claims he never was the same after that. Plus youth was the key to his Cincinnati stay, he was with Vada. I'm sure the passing time tempered his anger and heightened the good times in Cincinnati
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Ron Madden (02-03-2020)
Not to wax too philosophical, but age gives you that perspective. In your youth, you feel things passionately. Love, hate, happiness, sadness, boredom, competitive fires, and all that. Along with age comes acquiring the emotional armor to allow you to better deal the inevitable blows that life delivers. The trouble is with that you lop off the low lows but also the high highs. Life is more settled. Looking back on life’s arc, you see your youth in a different way and realize it for what it was with all its roaring passion and decide it was actually pretty good. Robby probably felt a bit of that.
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Frank Robinson passed away 3 yrs ago today.
Robby was remembered by a Baltimore tv station with a video at the beginning and another video at the end of this short article.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/frank...oneer/39003066
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I always thought a lot of his Reds teammates did not like him personally because he was always with Vada. However I doubt they made themselves available to hang out with him either. I’m sure they respected him though tremendously as a player.
Tony Cloninger (02-08-2022)
If you read bios of players from that era especially the ones in the 1950's early 60's (NBA too) you find that the players of color hung out together as there generally were only so many on a club and so many inthe league, now that is not always, but it was the norm. Plus Vada and Frank were from Oakland and they were young and knew each other. On the road even the older players like Mays looked out for the young black players, Joe Morgan had a story about how he went to San Francisco and Mays gave him a couple of really nice suits.
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Yep, they went to the same high school. McClymonds HS. Robinson, Pinson, Curt Flood, Jesse Gonder, and Celtics legend Bill Russell were all there at the same time. (Not necessarily in the same class, though.) About 30 years before that, Ernie Lombardi went to school there.
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