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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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Three
Book
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Fifty
Record
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Records

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