Articles related to "Frank Robinson"

Frank Robinson won two MVP awards, a Triple Crown, and became the game's first African-American manager in 1975.

It's tough to win a batting title, a home run crown, or an RBI championship, but it's much harder to win all three in one season. Here are the 12 players who've done it.

The 1961 Yankees won the World Series in five games. Many fans believe that it had been an easy series. Beating the Cincinnati Reds was extremely difficult.

It was bad enough when the reviled Barry Bonds was the main target of the steroid scandal but now that Alex Rodriguez is in the middle how will baseball recover?

Enjoy Eutaw Street with some Boog's BBQ, a little right field boogie and you have hit the home run of good times. No strike-outs here!

The World Series featured two seven-game classics in 1957 and 1958. Two departed stars, Hank Bauer and Lew Burdette, had vital moments in those match-ups.

In March 2007, Frank Robinson announced that he would produce Robinson's first turbine helicopter, the R66. It was finally shown to the world at the Robinson Factory.

Famous for his R22 and R44, Frank Robinson has now designed the new R66, a jet-powered five-seat helicopter. Production is expected within a couple of years.

A new helicopter which brought down the cost of learning to fly and owning one's own helicopter, the Robinson R22 was an almost instant success.

In a decade best known for superb pitching, these five hitters were able to break through with Hall of Fame level hitting performances year in and year out.

Following the tremendous popularity of his R22, in the 1990s Frank Robinson developed a larger four-seater version, designed for touring and longer flights.

Alex Rodriguez is about to pass into the 500 home run club. Here is everything you need to know about the group.

Baseball places more importance and ceremony on Opening Day than any other sport. Here are some of the best and worst of baseball's annual inaugural game.

Ted Williams and Stan Musial were finishing up, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were reaching their peaks, while Frank and Brooks Robinson were just starting.

Some of baseball's greatest stars have flopped in the limelight of the World series.

Earl Weaver was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1996. His teams have been excellent during the season but have won the World Series only once.

The NL had Jackie Robinson, Campanella, Newcombe, Mays, Aaron, Banks, Frank Robinson, and Maury Wills. In 1963, the American League had Elston Howard.

The home run is the greatest moment in all of sports. Here are all of the players who created that moment at least 400 times in their great careers.

From Johnny Podres to Don Clendenon, here are the guys who came through at the biggest time of the baseball year.

Yankee Stadium Will Close at the end of the 2008 baseball season. Here are just a few of the memories that it leaves behind.

When the American League was founded in 1901 to challenge the National League's monopoly on professional baseball, a fierce rivalry was born that continues to this day.

Cal Ripken redefined the shortstop position, changing it from a spot for the little and the quick, to the big and the strong. He made way for the likes of A-Rod & Jeter.

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