He was promoted to the Tulsa Oilers of the Class AA Texas League in 1954, but was demoted to the Columbia Reds of the Class A South Atlantic League. 348 with 83 runs batted in (RBI) in 72 games played.
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He made his professional debut for the Ogden Reds of the Class C Pioneer League. In 1953, Bobby Mattick, a scout for the Cincinnati Reds, signed Robinson to a contract worth $3,500 ($33,855 in current dollar terms). He was a baseball teammate of Vada Pinson and Curt Flood. He attended McClymonds High School in Oakland where he was a basketball teammate of Bill Russell. His parents divorced when he was an infant, and his mother moved with her children to Alameda, California, and then to the West Oakland neighborhood of nearby Oakland. He was the youngest of ten children born to Frank Robinson and Ruth Shaw. For most of the last two decades of his life, Robinson served in various executive positions for Major League Baseball concluding his career as honorary President of the American League. Robinson went on to manage the San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles, and Montreal Expos/ Washington Nationals. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1982. His 2,943 career hits are the most since 1934 by any player who fell short of the 3,000-hit mark. His 586 career home runs ranked fourth in major league history at the time of his retirement, and he ranked sixth in total bases (5,373) and extra-base hits (1,186), eighth in games played (2,808), and ninth in runs scored (1,829). 300 nine times, hit 30 home runs 11 times, and led his league in slugging four times and in runs scored three times. In 1975, Robinson became the first black manager in big league history, as the Cleveland Indians’ player-manager.Ī 14-time All-Star, Robinson batted.
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He helped lead the Orioles to the first two World Series titles in franchise history in 19, and was named the Series MVP in 1966 after leading the Orioles to a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The only player to be named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), he was named the NL MVP after leading the Cincinnati Reds to the pennant in 1961 and was named the AL MVP in 1966 with the Baltimore Orioles after winning the Triple Crown Robinson's 49 home runs (HR) that year tied for the most by any AL player between 19, and stood as a franchise record for 30 years.
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