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He was around when the Orioles lost twice as many games as they won. The Orioles rekindled a fan base’ s hope when they leapt from 52 wins in 2021 to 83 last year, but few analysts predicted another jump. Instead, the Orioles are nearing 100 wins and on the doorstep of an American League East title, achievements that put them among the greatest breakout teams in.
Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson died Tuesday. The Owings Mills resident was 86.. Through much of baseball’ s golden age, Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was a poster boy for the national pastime, a symbol of Americana whose visage was even captured in a 1971 Norman Rockwell painting.
Robinson played his first game for the Orioles in 1955, the year after the franchise arrived in Baltimore, was a key member of the club’ s first four World Series teams and lasted long enough to suit up with a new generation of stars, led by Eddie Murray. After watching Robinson dismantle the Cincinnati Reds with his glove and his bat, Pete Rose put it simply:“ Brooks.
Brooks Robinson, the legendary third baseman and Hall of Famer affectionately known as "Mr. Oriole" for spending his entire 23-year big league career in Baltimore, has died at 86.
"All of us at Major League Baseball are saddened by the loss of Brooks Robinson, one of the greats of our