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Feb 7, 2019 · Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, the first black manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win the MVP award in both leagues, died Thursday. He was 83.
Mar 7, 2020 · This was the day Frank Robinson managed his first game. “Frank Robinson wrote down 10 names,” Dick Young wrote in the New York Daily News and more than 100 syndicated newspapers across America ...
Feb 7, 2019 · Baseball trailblazer Frank Robinson died Thursday at 83. He was the MLB's first African-American manager. Richard Justice of MLB.com remembers Robinson's remarkable career.
Jun 27, 2018 · ROBINSON, Frank. ( b. 31 August 1935 in Beaumont, Texas), one of the greatest baseball players of the twentieth century, the first athlete named as the Most Valuable Player for both the National and American Leagues, and the first African American to manage a major league team. Robinson was the youngest of ten children.
Feb 7, 2019 · Frank Robinson, who in 1975 became Major League Baseball's first African-American manager and is considered one of the game's greatest players, died on Thursday at the age of 83.
Feb 7, 2019 · Frank Robinson displays trophies he received for being the Most Valuable Player in both the American and National Leagues at his home in Los Angeles in 1971.
Mar 25, 2024 · Frank Robinson played Negro Leaguer Frank Potter in a 1991 episode of the Cosby Show. Frank Robinson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush in 2005. On May 27, 2017, a statue in his likeness was unveiled outside Progressive Field, commemorating his status as the first African American manager in history.
