biography
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Robinson, Wilbert
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nickname Uncle Robbie
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1934)
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| biography:
| Baseball manager, born in Bolton, Massachusetts, USA. He had a 17-year major league career (1886–1902), mostly as a star catcher with the Baltimore Orioles (1892–9), then went on to manage and coach minor-league teams. To demonstrate his catching prowess, he once caught a grapefruit dropped 400 feet from an aeroplane. As manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1914–31), he was so popular that the Dodgers were sometimes called the ‘Robins’ in his honour. He was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1945. |
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