‘Brooks Robinson is Baltimore’: With tears and laughs at Camden Yards, family members and team legends honor ‘Mr. Oriole’
Posted on AllSides October 2nd, 2023
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The first cheer from those gathered Monday morning at Camden Yards for Brooks Robinsons’s public memorial came when, during a replaying of the legendary third baseman’s Hall of Fame speech, he thanked the city of Baltimore. Robinson once said that the greatest highlight of his career was not any of his individual accolades — of which there were plenty, including his famed 16 straight Gold Glove awards — but having played for one team, Baltimore, each year of his career. “I played 23 years with the Orioles,” Robinson once said,...