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
What's deceptive about a good changeup as far as a hitter's concerned is the arm motion. If he delivers it with the same arm motion and same arm speed that he does the fastball, it will be a very effective pitch for him.
We have a better chance, let me put it that way. It just takes a lot of pressure off other people with those two guys in there. It just makes for a better lineup.
We just don't seem to be able to put two games together. It doesn't seem like we have the ability to do it.
We just don't get the big, tough hit. We just don't do it. We don't get the fly ball.
You have to understand, number one, the guys that are out there, those people are not going to be out there. We didn't catch the ball in the wind, we didn't make good decisions on plays, we didn't execute fundamentally.
You have to give the Korean team some credit. If you make a mistake they'll put the bat on the ball.
You have to give him credit for some of it. But some of the responsibility falls on our shoulders. We're not swinging the bats very well.
What am I going to say to him? How to handle himself? Swing a bat, be successful and drive some runs in tonight. That's how I want him to handle himself. Other than that, I don't feel I have to go in and talk to him about how to handle himself on a baseball field.
We've got time. We don't want him to come in here and rush it. He's a veteran guy, not a youngster that's going to be going out there trying to prove anything.
We've just been very fortunate we had good success against him and made good pitches on him, ... You have to contain him. You don't just totally shut him down.
We'll win our share of games. If things break right, we might surprise somebody.
When you are losing, a manager thinks about using his best. That's where I could have used somebody else in certain situation.
When we learned about the various challenges service-disabled veterans have in getting loans and growing businesses, we realized there is a real need and we wanted to address it.
We're not mathematically eliminated, ... But we're in a pretty good hole right now. . . . We still have a chance, and we still keep battling until somebody tells us, 'You're out of it.'