Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinsonis an American former Major League Baseballoutfielder and manager. He played for five teams from 1956 to 1976, and became the only player to win league MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues. He won the Triple Crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series, and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement. Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityBeaumont, TX
CountryUnited States of America
It kind of sets the tone. ... Take nothing for granted run hard, play hard.
I'm just on the side looking at it, the runs are going up on the board. But I don't know what it is or why.
He could go out and pitch the same way this year and have a tremendous year because things go his way. This may be his year to get run support.
I remember my first Opening Day very well. We lost 4-2 to the Cardinals on a two-run home run. I remember my first at-bat, a double, missed a home run by a couple of feet. I had an intentional walk and another hit and went 2-for-3, and I thought I was on my way to the Hall of Fame.
Big home run. Big, big, big home run in the eighth inning. The other two were big, too.
Second pitch. Line drive off the center-field fence. Missed hitting a home run by a couple of feet. Double.
I am not going to sit here and say he should hit 25 home runs and drive in 90 runs or whatever. That's not fair. But what he is doing, I knew he had the abilities to do these things.
My pick would be Willis, because this team is not always running on all gears, ... St. Louis was like a machine this year. You don't penalize Carpenter for that. But to me, it's Willis. If nothing else, we couldn't beat him.
It seems like every staff has a guy that a team scores runs for, and then there's this hard-luck guy that they don't score runs for. This may be his year to get the run support.
I hope that he will take it from there and play the way he's capable of playing. Run the ball out. That's all. I don't think that's asking too much.
I know time is running out as far as I'm concerned.
He was very sharp today with his pitches,
He throws well enough to win up here. He's got to locate a little better up here to be successful.
He kept yapping at me, and I was talking at him, and he's telling me, 'No more,' but he's still yakking at me, ... I'm trying to tell him, 'You stop talking to me if I can't talk to you.'