Lord Baltimore's namesake city has lost its most beloved local hero...on the same day [yesterday, Tuesday, September 26, 2023] when local authorities there were still looking for a murderous, career-felon* on the loose.

Baseball fans made such a BIG deal back in the mid-'60s when that OTHER Robinson--that would be the late Frank--was traded by The Reds [ne' The Redlegs during the darkest days of The Cold War!] in the NL, and THAT Robinson made it big indeed in the AL (eventually making MLB history by being the first [and still ONLY?] player to be MVP in BOTH major leagues).

And soon enough, those not-in-the-least-twin Robinsons led the former St. Louis Browns into a LONG run as an American League powerhouse.

But as impressive as OUTFIELDER Robinson so frequently was, he was nowhere NEAR the on-field delight to behold as was the day-in-day-out dazzling play at third base that third-baseman Robinson delivered over so many glorious Orioles summers.

By any standard, this LATER late Robinson was a no-brainer for Cooperstown; thanks for all the marvelous memories through the years commanding The Corner for the Orioles, Sir Brooks!

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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* Who was surely just TERRIBLY deprived as an innocent youth...and thus probably exculpable in the mind of at least one future juror who won't understand the actual reasons why this guy ruthlessly dispatched a rising 26-year-old e-company CEO in her apartment this week.
==================https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Robinson

Whilst ruminating on what can be done about this darned Thai-posting e-terrorist, I've been thinking back through my baseball-watching from the late '50s through the entirety of the '60s, '70s, 80s and 90s--haven't watched nearly as much MLB thus far this century--and trying to remember ANY third-baseman who recurrently amazed me as much as Brooks Robinson's play at The Corner.

And recollect as I might, I simply can't recall a SINGLE other third-baseman was was even NEARLY in Robinson's class, much less surpassing him!

Still, my MLB familiarity is admittedly limited--plus, growing up in St. Louis after the St. Louis Brown franchise's desertion of The Gateway City after my birth-year 1954, over the decades I naturally watched (in person in the Busch Memorial Stadium stands or merely on TV) decidedly less American League play than I did that of the comparatively-less colorful National League.

So: can ANYONE herein cite ANY other third-baseman who was even HALF the fielding wizard that Robinson was over so many seasons in Baltimore's storied (AND architecturally lovely) Memorial Stadium* ? And EVEN IF YOU CAN name other comparable third-basemen elsewhere in MLB, were they even HALF the reliable and muscular bat-man ("power hitter' or otherwise), that Robinson ALSO was throughout his remarkable career?

Anxious to hear all of y'all's get-real-Styble-this-guy-was-JUST-as-great! names.

STYBLE/Florida
============* The same edifice, not incidentally, where Johnny Unitas ALSO reigned so supreme for so many historic NFL seasons!

Given all the serious MLB followers among the alt-obits community--I'm just a mere bleachers bum, by comparison--I'm amazed no one else has as yet noted Hall of Famer Robinson's sad demise! (Or its that hyperactive Thai e-bot dissuading everyone from posting until the spam has subsided? (Assuming it ever DOES peter out, of course.)

STYBLE/Florida

In article <757e6e2a-b1a2-429e-9cd6-fa4ce2581bc7n@googlegroups.com>,
<"radioacti...@gmail.com"> wrote:

> Given all the serious MLB followers among the alt-obits community--I'm just a
> mere bleachers bum, by comparison--I'm amazed no one else has as yet noted
> Hall of Famer Robinson's sad demise! (Or its that hyperactive Thai e-bot
> dissuading everyone from posting until the spam has subsided? (Assuming it
> ever DOES peter out, of course.)
>
> STYBLE/Florida

Diner posted it on the 26th and you yourself (or someone using your
name) posted it on the 27th.