...MVP1959 - AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame1959 - Boston Patriots enters AFL1961 - Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues1961 - St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws1964...
...baseball, maybe more so than in any other sport. And going back to Babe Ruth, and players like Harmon Killebrew and Frank Robinson and Willie Mays, seeing people jump over them with 600, 700 home runs, I don't like to see that."I don't...
...of the Triple Crown. The last four Triple Crown winners have been voted MVP, including Mickey Mantle in 1956 and Frank Robinson in 1966."I think winning the Triple Crown had a lot to do with me winning this honor," he said.Cabrera became...
...will finish the season 2-3 for his new team ending his 19-year Hall of Fame career with 286 victories.1971 - Frank Robinson, who hit a two-run home run in Mid-Summer Classic, is named the MVP of the contest won by the American League...
...bullpen was spent reading the scouting report on Brewers batters, trying to be as prepared as possible should manager Frank Robinson call Bentz into the game. Bentz said he sometimes gets advance warning before entering a game - but often not...
...the inning to chase Kim. "When (Kim) got the ball up, they took advantage of it and hit it," Expos manager Frank Robinson said. Giants 3, Dodgers 2 SAN FRANCISCO - Ray Durham hit a bases-loaded triple and Jerome Williams pitched six...
...it's a little tough for people to get up and talk about it in the positive way that they should," Expos manager Frank Robinson said. "And I think that's kind of a pity, really, because it deserves that people say more about how they feel...
...it out. He's become an excellent hitter. If you miss with a pitch, he makes you pay for it.'' McGwire tied Frank Robinson for fifth place all-time with his 54th career multiple-homer game. He had eight two-homer games and two three-homer...
...after only one full season of professional baseball, Bentz has a shot at cracking a major-league roster. Manager Frank Robinson mentioned Thursday that one thing he will be looking for at this camp is a lefty reliever to replace Scott Stewart...
...with him to Florida, Minaya basically had to start from scratch in reconstructing the organization. Bud Selig asked Frank Robinson, a Hall of Fame player and former manager then working out of the commissioner's office, to return to the dugout...
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