A Baltimore baseball writer named Jim Elliot said of Brooksie: 'Compared to this guy, Stan Musial was hard to get along with.'
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“Think about how Brooks Robinson throws. Don’t overthrow it. Throw it just as hard as you need to get the runner out.”Every day in that backyard, Dad and me, it is Brooks Robinson — Mr. Hoover, the Human Vacuum Cleaner, the greatest defensive third baseman who ever lived — who moves us forward. Every day — on sunny days like this or gray days like most, on a mowed backyard or one covered in dandelions or in the mud — I see Brooksie, imagine Brooksie, dream of being like Brooksie.
And he was so impossibly nice. Everybody thought so. Brooks worked at it. His hero was Stan Musial, the nicest of ballplayers, and it was his goal to someday be like him. Years later, a Baltimore baseball writer named Jim Elliot said of Brooksie: “Compared to this guy, Stan Musial was hard to get along with.”
in 1955 for $4,000. The hapless Orioles were in just their second season in Baltimore after being the hapless St. Louis Browns for so long. They lost 100 games the year before they signed him and lost 97 the year after that. But their lousiness was actually how they drew Robinson to Baltimore; they told him he’d have a chance to move up quickly. And sure enough, he played his first big-league game in September when he was 18. He went 2-for-4 with an RBI against.
“The most amazing part,” said former big-league pitcher Al Fitzmorris, who saw Robinson from across the way dozens of times, “is that he really couldn’t throw. You’d see all sorts of guys like Graig Nettles and Buddy Bell and George , and they all had these rifle arms. But not Brooks. He would just lob the ball across the infield and get his guy by a step.”
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