Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinsonis an American former Major League Baseballoutfielder and manager. He played for five teams from 1956 to 1976, and became the only player to win league MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues. He won the Triple Crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series, and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement. Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityBeaumont, TX
CountryUnited States of America
You can't let that happen. Those things come back to haunt you.
You can't let that happen. He felt like he was safe, but the umpire thought he was out. Those things come back to haunt you.
You can't keep going like this and saying, 'Well, it's early. It's going to come around.' We need to get results and we need to get them starting tomorrow.
This might be the one we needed to put us over the top before this thing is over.
There's a chance he might not go out there on a regular basis to play defense,
There's a lot of camaraderie on this ball club already. In spring training it's been a good clubhouse. Believing in themselves and playing with excitement, I think that all comes from winning. I think this team has that ability to do that, to come together as a team.
This is what we thought we could get out of him early in the year, ... What a weapon he would have been.
This is what we have to do to compete. Hopefully, now we can put it together.
And then we'll relax a little bit and play the schedule out.
Any time a coach has to take the full blame, he's the fall guy, ... He can't go up there and hit.
an outstanding performance on his part. After the first inning, he was really in full control.
As far as I'm concerned, it's closed. It's a non-issue. It's done.
This is another step, and a very important step, in ownership being named. It was just a matter of when this thing was going to get done. That's the key right there. ... You want to get ownership named, so you can get the new ballpark, so you can feel what I call 'whole' as a team and as a franchise.
This is a step in the right direction. This sends out a good message to the fans and to the rest of the players that if we feel like a player ... is going to be good for the ball club in the future, we won't be afraid to lock them up.