“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 ...