Coming over from the California Angels during the 1974 season, Robinson had a career resume anyone would kill for: two MVP Awards, a Triple Crown in 1966, eleven all-star nods and a Rookie of the Year back in 1956 when he smashed a record-tying 38 home runs for the Cincinnati reds.
After his blockbuster trade to the Baltimore Orioles before the 1966 season, he would help the team go on to two championships, along with two other World Series berths alongside other Hall of Fame teammates Jim Palmer and Brooks Robinson, among others.
A true baseball lifer, he then went on to manage for 16 seasons as well as hold executive positions for Major League Baseball, something he is doing to this very day as Honorary President of the American League.
Truly an all-time great of the game, it’s incredible to think that a guy with THIS baseball resume could be lost in the thick woods of greatness of his contemporaries like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Roberto Clemente.
Nevertheless, one of the giants of the game.