R.I.P. B. Robinson. By all accounts he was a good dude who treated all of his teammates equally.
OT: RIP Brooks Robinson
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Kell actually played full time for 14 yrs & for 1 game the first year he came up--so technically for 15 yrs. A pretty long career.
Brooks was probably the only 3rd baseman in history who never threw sidearm, even on the slow rolling swinging bunt, his body motion somehow allowed him to get on top of the throw without sacrificing time… pretty amazing
You're right that Kell had a long career. But Robinson's was even longer. I meant to link this statistical comparison of the two. https://stathead.com/baseball/versu...ource=br&utm_medium=sr_xsite&utm_id=robinbr01
And I am old enough to remember when interleague was so controversial and how much resistance there was to it. Believe it or not, Walter O'Malley, when owning the Dodgers, proposed it in 1960. But his reason was that he wanted each league to have only nine teams so that the L.A. Angels would not be established. Bill Veeck talks about this in his memoir "Veeck as in Wreck."
Interesting. I have a Veeck bio that I have been meaning to read. It may be next.
Pretty cool you played on the same field as Brooks Robinson.
Any time at that hot corner on 3B ?
LOL. I have the speed of an offensive lineman!
So, “KC, right field” was the coaches mantra.
And, George Kell was from Swifton, Arkansas…….
Yall might be surprised to know that many MLB teams came to Hot Springs, Arkansas for spring training. The night life(full casino’s, hot spring mineral baths, golf, lakes, restaurants, etc) drew several major league teams. There is actually a tour of the players and places where the games took place.
Lol, annoying indeed, it’s up in owings mills though right so close to the Pa line?
Got my Little League 3rd Sack inspiration skills from Brooks & Nettles. Made a ton of diving plays 9, 10 & 11. Took an ungroomed field bounce to the eye & nose diving to 3rd base. Think I needed like 10 stitches under my eye. Fing ball hit a rock 1st bounce kicked dead right never had a chance laid out and said F that CF it is. Brooks was the best
You wouldn’t believe what the playing fields look like today in professional baseball…. Especially major league fields.
I’ve been at new ballparks with Bucky Dent, Ozzie Smith, Ryan Sandberg, Larry Bowa… there’s not a bad hop out there.
We were astounded at the conditions compared to when we played.
Your not kidding. Dragging the field non existent, footprints in dried mud still there, rocks galore. You just tried to smooth things out around you. Took a couple nut shots as well. Funny story played South Plainfield in HS my senior year long moved to OF. Their field was hand groomed. There was actually a guy on his hands & knees cutting blades of grass with hand clippers around IF. We were in warmups and every single guy on our team missed ground balls in IF & OF as the field was perfect we were so used to bad bounces and got accustomed to them. By far best HS field I ever stepped on. Played at Trenton Thunder Stadium Coors Light National Softball Tourney Regionals that was real nice field as well except for bare patches where OF'ers regularly stood
Zap I will say this you learned quick hands fast in LL back in the day Played on artificial turf softball for 1st time like 7 yrs ago and had lasers hit at me at 50 by 20yr olds and wasnt worried in the least. The only thing you had to worry about at night with damp field was that initial skip could get handcuffed real easy. Think the 1st one took off the chest got up on me faster than I anticipated. (Yes it hurt like a MF'er had the welt for like a week) Took it like a champ never show weakness on field saved that for the beers afterward. Would love to play on today's fields
Oddly enough my older sister was the big Brooks fan. She hot me hooked on him not either of my brothers..probably because she had the hots for Jim Palmer like every other girl
Very old-time fans know that the Washington Senators won their only World Series in 1924 when a grounder hit a pebble and bounced over the third baseman's head to drive in the winning run in the 7th game in extra innings. The third baseman, btw, was Freddie Lindstrom, who is in the Hall of Fame.
Interesting that both Kell & Robinson, two of the best 3rd baseman ever, both came from Arkansas.
There wasn’t much to do sports-wise in Arkansas back in those days; many will say that is still true today. Poverty was everywhere and all its effects. Baseball was fun and provided an opportunity for these men to move forward in life. I am proud that they were from Arkansas.
Yeah, but I can't remember if I've put bread in the toaster!
Or that I had already asked for directions to Morristown!Or how to get to Morristown…
