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Brooks Robinson
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Brooks Robinson was born on May 18th, 1937 and is an American former third baseman in Major League Baseball. His height is 6 foot 1 inch and weighs 190 pounds. He is a right handed player. He played his first game on 17th September1955 and his last game on 13th August 1977. He played his 23-year career with the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 77. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.
In 16 seasons, he was the Gold Glove award winner. For 15 straight seasons, he was the American League's starting All-Star third baseman. He led AL third basemen in assists 8 times and in fielding 11 times. He holds almost every lifetime record for third baseman by a wide margin including 2,870 most games, .971 best fielding percentage, 2,697 most putouts, 6,205 most assists, 9,165 most chances 618 and most double plays.
He won the 1964 MVP, Most Valuable Player award on the strength of his only .300 season, with 28 HR, Home Runs and 118 RBI, Runs Batted In. He was named MVP of the 1966 All-Star Game after getting three hits and scoring the AL's lone run in a 2 to 1 loss.
Brooks Robinson with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many hallmarks in his overall baseball-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.
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