C LEVELAND, Ohio — Few moments in baseball history have been wrapped in the kind of cultural significance that Frank Robinson’s opening day home run carried with it over the wall against the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Look no further than the statue of Frank Robinson situated ... that just about everything Robinson did in his career around baseball was meaningful. “I was around him as ...

“I think Frank may have heard about it and decided to play, because he wasn’t originally.” Robinson pinch-hit ... an analyst of for Guardians/Indians baseball. Kuiper has broadcast Giants ...

Although it happened 50 years ago, minority managers are still walking through the door that Frank Robinson ... As for being baseball’s first Black manager, Baker said the Robinson never talked ...

GOODYEAR, Arizona — History waits for no one, especially a tardy sportswriter. The date was 50 years ago this week, April 8, 1975. I was working for the Painesville Telegraph, covering Little ...

By May, both players had joined the Indians and got a first hand view of Robinson’s managerial style. “I was 20,” said Manning. “Growing up Frank was one of the greatest players in the ...