Godspeed Brooksie, you were and always will be my baseball hero..... they say never meet your heroes you'll be disappointed, well I met mine and as good a third baseman as he was he was a better human being.
I was teared up seeing Mr. Brooks treated so well by our younger Orioles and the Other team as well. I am proud of Mr. Brooks and all of my orioles from 54 forward.
When I think of some of the greatest third basemen of all time, Brooks Robinson has been, and always will be, at the top of that list! What a class act!
I saw my first full World Series on television as a vey young boy. I recall the play in which the great broadcaster Curt Gowdy referred to Mr. Robinson as the "Human Vaccuum Cleaner" His defense and offense won the Series for the Orioles. The Reds were a great team that year, the beginning of the Big Red Machine. All of the games were day games, the commercials were tasteful, and the broadcasting was not histrionic. Playing for the Orioles for 23 years and representing the organization in his later years, he is truly Mr. Oriole. ❤️ His attention to the fans and players in the video was inspiring. He truly cared for others. The sadness of our loss has a ray of sunshine in the outpouring of love and recognition nationally. He played in the Golden Age of baseball, maybe the Golden Age of sports, in general. I miss those days of simplicity, modesty, and 10 or 25 cent baseball cards, before the corporate takeover and encroachment on sports cloaked in business speak, and unnecessarily precise or irrelevant "analytics" paved paradise and put up a wealthy skybox. Mr. Robinson was a wonderful representative of those days.
Yeah, it rolled to home plate. But it took half a century to get his legendary arm to that point. He could throw out batters at first, 10 feet beyond the foul line 1/3 way to dugout.
YOU JUST WATCH AND NOW > YOU SEE HIM PLAY AND YOU CAN SEE THE GROWN UP PLAYER AND YET YOU CAN SEE THE BOY IN THOSE CLIPS AS HE DID AS A LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYER . AMAZING > HE'S IN THAT LEGEND GROUP. I WAS STRESSED ABOUT HIM PLAYING THE YANKEES late 60'S 70'S /80'S > WELL NOT 76,77,78, THATS BASEBALL YOU GROW TO REALIZE WHATS BASEBALL AND WHO'S BASEBALL !
To bad he didn't make it to see the 0s in the playoffs he said he watched every game this team has such history and it been wonderful to be a fan all these years.
Up until Mike Schmidt came along Brooksie was the best 3rd baseman I’d ever seen. I swear this man could get any ball hit between the 2nd and 3rd bags.
