R.I.P. Brooks Robinson

[Peter_Spaeth]

I was at the home games of the 1970 WS sitting on the third base side, didn't get any better than that.

[gabrinus]

Brooks was somebody everybody from Arkansas could be proud of...Jerry

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by gabrinus

Brooks was somebody everybody from Arkansas could be proud of...Jerry

I humbly request to edit "Arkansas" to "the entire world".

An even greater success as a human being than a ballplayer. Just a rare, rare bird.

[Hankphenom]

OMG, what a sweet guy Brooksie was! My joke about talking to Brooks was after a while you felt like you had to excuse yourself before he gave you his car! In the late 80s, me and my buddy went to see the Russian national baseball team play the U. of MD team and Brooks was a special guest. After the game, we went down and had a long chat with him. Some time later, as we were heading for the parking lot, we hear a car horn and look over to see Brooks waving at us as he drove out of the lot. He was way over on the passenger side looking out that window, barely hanging onto the steering wheel, and almost drove off the road. Swear to God. I was lucky enough to have had several opportunities to talk to him at length over the years and my gosh, what a wonderful human being he was. R.I.P. Brooks, if ever there was someone who deserves it, it's you.

[ValKehl]

Below is a clip from an online piece in the Wash. Post re Brooks' passing. Here's the link to this piece, but there may be a firewall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obitu...-orioles-dead/

“Of all the game’s greats, perhaps Robinson has been least cursed by his own fame,” Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell wrote in 1977, when Mr. Robinson retired. “He had great talent and never abused it. He received adulation, and reciprocated with common decency. While other players dressed like kings and acted like royalty, Robinson arrived at the park dressed like a cabdriver. Other stars had fans. Robinson made friends.”

[Peter_Spaeth]

As best I could tell, Ripken was very much in that tradition as well.

[ClementeFanOh]

Rest in Peace- Trent King

[The Detroit Collector]

R.I.P to the great Brooks Robinson

[Rickyy]

RIP Great Player and from all accounts an even better person.

Ricky Y

[commishbob]

I'm just heartbroken tonight. My baseball hero is gone. He'd been looking so frail lately I think I knew this day was coming, but it still is a sad evening.

My aunt, an Orioles fan in Baltimore called Brooks' office at Crown Petroleum when my daughter was born in 1987 and told his secretary that his biggest fan had had a daughter. Brooks himself called her and got my mailing address. Soon this photo arrived unsolicited.

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Here's Brooks with my son Brooks Robinson Andrews at a Houston show in 1998.

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RIP Brooksie

[Orioles1954]

About 10 years ago I met Brooks at a signing near Baltimore. I'm from Arkansas and was wearing my University of Arkansas Razorbacks cap. He told me 1964 was special to the Robinson family not only because of the MVP, but because Brooks' little brother was on the U of A football team, the year of their only national title. After the show we talked Arkansas college football for 10-15 minutes and we went over each game during that season. It felt like I was talking to a buddy. Such a true gentleman -

Heaven got richer today!