(He was also a manager — the first black manager in ... The only person who ever had a Frank Robinson card was my sister and she wouldn’t part with it. He wasn’t responsible for my first ...
Frank Robinson had a way of repeating ... As early as 1961, Philadelphia Phillies manager Gene Mauch fined pitchers for throwing at Robinson, because such tactics only made him more aggressive.
Frank Robinson earned his first of two MVP awards in 1961 while playing for the Reds. I have never understood why Robinson, now manager of the Montreal Expos, has always been the forgotten man.
That may have been the thinking for Bill DeWitt 50 years ago Wednesday when the Reds' president and owner traded Frank ... Robinson hit 586 career home runs. In 1975, he became a player-manager ...