MLB's Oldest Living Player- Eddie Robinson- Celebrating 100th Birthday - 12/15/2020

[jgannon]

Happy 100th Eddie Robinson!

I love his 1956 Topps card in particular and also have a few others. I am actually reading his autobiography right now, and the copy I picked up also had an inscription. I would post it, but I am not sure how to post pics here on Net54. (If anyone could give me a quick explanation I would really appreciate it!)

Btw, when Babe Ruth last appeared at Yankee Stadium on June 13, 1948, there is that famous picture of him in his uniform leaning on a bat, and it was Eddie Robinson who gave him that bat. Robinson was playing with the Indians at the time who were playing the Yankees that day, and Ruth wanted to get dressed at his old locker which was actually in the visiting team's clubhouse on the third base side of the field in that that used to be the Yankees' clubhouse during his playing days. (The Yankees started to use the clubhouse on the first base side of the field after he left the Yankees). Anyway, Robinson thought he might need a bat to help him walk and lean on, and thought to give it to him. When Ruth came back to the dugout, he asked him to sign it for him.