Another part of my childhood flew away today. I still see him taking hits away from Johnny Bench, Lee May and Tany Pérez.in that 1970 WS. He was The Greatest !!!
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.
The greatest defensive 3rd baseman I have ever seen. And a clutch hitter on offense. One by one over the past 3 years all my baseball heros from my childhood have passed away. Another very sad day upon hearing this news. RIP Brooks
Forget about how great he played 3rd base. Brooks always had time for others. He talked with me as a young boy for 30 minutes in Cleveland one weekend. I will never forget that day.
I'm glad I got to see him play. Before he retired and in an old timers game. He was one of the all time greats. ESPN needs to update their page about him. It says unspecified position and he was a third baseman. RIP Brooks.
No, I don't think you understand. The award is for the very best player out of any and all positions (ie. the nine positions in a fielded team), making his achievement even greater than just amongst third basemen. He basically outshone the play of hundreds of other candidates, all-stars included.
I'm 74 years-old, and been a baseball fan all my life. I didn't grow up a Baltimore Orioles fan, but I did grow up a Brooks Robinson fan. Without a doubt, the greatest glove man at third base I have ever seen. What he did to the Reds in the 1970 World Series on defense alone is legendary, and still hard to believe! He also beat 'em with the bat! May you RIP Brooks Robinson, and thanks for the memories.
I remember when I was 10 years old and I started wearing number five and I wanted to play catcher and third base because of Johnny bench and Brooks Robinson. And that's what I did. Kept number five all the way through high school.
Tigers fan in the early 70's, I hated the Orioles. Earl Weaver, Jim Palmer and Boog Powell, despised them. Brooks Robinson though, always respected that guy.
Somewhere in baseball heaven there must be some all-star ballot that has Brooks Robinson as the leading A.L. vote getter at third and the leading vote getter at catcher, yet again, is Bill Freehan, lol. But seriously, I thought I'd mention that when the 1984 Tigers went wire-to-wire in first place, seemed like wherever you looked in pop culture entertainment there would be a few more sightings of someone with a Tigers cap on. There was Magnum, P.I.(Tom Selleck) with it almost always on, then the guitar player Rick Nielsen with the Chicago-area rock band Cheap Trick would always wear a Cubs cap during concerts, but in 1984 he would switch to wearing the Tigers cap even though stupidly enough the Cubs also won the N.L. East and went to their first postseason games in 39 years! And then in the 1984 movie "Purple Rain" the fictional manager of the Minneapolis nightclub is seen wearing a...you guessed it, Tigers cap. The next year after the Tigers won the world championship my younger brother went to the downtown Washington, D.C. location on 17th St. just half a block from the K Street and Connecticut Ave. intersection where a Baltimore Orioles team store existed to buy the Tigers World Champions pennant with a scroll that listed the names of the entire team and the manager (Sparky Anderson).
