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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Brooks Robinson

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Brooks Robinson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 18
Baseball Player
Little Rock
Arkansas
Brooks Calbert Robinson
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Fifty
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Three
Book
Years
Inches

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I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.
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I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.
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I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
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Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.
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He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.
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I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
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