Aaron Robinson (baseball)

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Aaron Robinson
Runs batted in
272
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Aaron Andrew Robinson (June 23, 1915 – March 9, 1966) was an American

Hall of Fame catchers Bill Dickey (1928–1946) and Yogi Berra (1946–1963).[2][3]

Born in

minor league baseball
.

Major League career

Robinson made his major league debut for the New York Yankees on May 6,

runs batted in.[1] He also finished third among American League catchers with 25 baserunners caught stealing, and fourth in assists with 50.[7] Robinson finished 16th in the American League Most Valuable Player Award voting.[8]

Robinson began the 1947 season as the Yankees' starting catcher, and was named as a reserve player for the American League in the 1947 All-Star Game.[9] However, as the season progressed, Yogi Berra began to take over as the starting catcher.[3] Robinson ended the year with a .270 batting average in 82 games, with 5 home runs and 36 runs batted in, as the Yankees went on to win the American League pennant.[1] In the 1947 World Series, Robinson appeared in three games and started in Games 5 and 7, getting two hits in 10 at-bats, as the Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a seven-game series.[10][11][12]

Having a surplus of catchers in 1948 with Berra, Sherm Lollar and Gus Niarhos, the Yankees decided to trade Robinson, along with Fred Bradley and Bill Wight, to the Chicago White Sox for Eddie Lopat in February of that year.[13] He played in 98 games for the White Sox, but his offensive statistics continued to decline, as he hitfor a .252 batting average.[1] After only one season with the White Sox, Robinson was traded to the Detroit Tigers for Billy Pierce in November 1948.[13]

Robinson became the Tigers' starting catcher in

home plate to force out Lemon, he failed to apply a tag, thus allowing Lemon to score the winning run.[17] The Tigers fell two and a half games behind the Yankees in the standings with one week left in the season, and were unable to recover before the season ended.[15]

By the time Robinson was acquired by the Boston Red Sox in

home runs. He hit
.260 lifetime.

Career statistics

Over an eight-year career, Robinson played in 610

wins above replacement of any position player never to have stolen a base.[19]

In 1953 only, the 'Aaron Robinson, MacGregor G176' catcher's mitt was produced.[4] The 1948 trade between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox involving Robinson and Pierce has been cited as one of the more lopsided trades in baseball history, as Robinson had retired from baseball by 1951, whereas Pierce had a lengthy, productive career with the White Sox.[20][21]

Managing career

After retiring as a player, Robinson became a

Winston-Salem Twins and won another title with the Shelby Colonels, winning the 1961 Western Carolina League championship despite having a losing record.[22] Five years later, Robinson died at age 50, a victim of testicular cancer, on March 9, 1966, in Lancaster, South Carolina.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Aaron Robinson Stats". Baseball-Reference.com.
  2. ISSN 0005-609X
  3. ^ a b "Aaron Robinson -- All-Star lost his job to Yogi Berra". www.historicbaseball.com.
  4. ^ a b Aaron Robinson at www.29seven20.com Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Gazette
    , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, volume CLXXII, number 141, June 14, 1943, page 20.
  6. Meriden Daily Journal
    , Meriden, Connecticut, 59th year, number 165, July 13, 1944, page 6.
  7. ^ "1946 American League Fielding Leaders". Baseball-Reference.com.
  8. ^ "1946 Awards Voting". Baseball-Reference.com.
  9. ^ "1947 All-Star Game Box Score, July 8". Baseball-Reference.com.
  10. ^ "1947 World Series Game 5, New York Yankees at Brooklyn Dodgers, October 4, 1947". Baseball-Reference.com.
  11. ^ "1947 World Series Game 7, Brooklyn Dodgers at New York Yankees, October 6, 1947". Baseball-Reference.com.
  12. ^ "1947 World Series - New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3)". Baseball-Reference.com.
  13. ^ a b "Aaron Robinson Trades and Transactions by Baseball Almanac". www.baseball-almanac.com.
  14. ^ "Robinson Boner Might Cost Detroit Pennant". The Victoria Advocate. Associated Press. 24 September 1950. p. 7. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
  15. ^ a b "1950 Detroit Tigers Schedule". Baseball-Reference.com.
  16. ^ Retrosheet box score: 1950-09-24
  17. ^ "Detroit Tigers at Cleveland Indians Box Score, September 24, 1950". Baseball-Reference.com.
  18. ^ "Aaron Robinson 1951 batting game log at Baseball digest".
  19. ^ "Batting Season & Career Finder". Stathead.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  20. ISSN 0005-609X
  21. ISSN 0005-609X
  22. ^ a b "Aaron Robinson Amateur & Minor Leagues Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference.com.
  23. ^ "1954 Carolina League". Baseball-Reference.com.
  24. ^ "Aaron Robinson, Was 49, Catcher for Yankees in '40s". Newsday. Melville, New York. March 10, 1966. p. 89. Retrieved January 26, 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon

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