Sheriff Robinson

Warren Grant "Sheriff" Robinson (September 8, 1921 – April 5, 2002) was an American

In 1957–58, Robinson managed Double-A clubs for Boston in the Texas League (with the Oklahoma City Indians) and the Southern Association (with the Memphis Chicks). However, a housecleaning in the Red Sox front office at the close of the 1960 season resulted in the departure of the team's farm system director, Johnny Murphy, and Robinson joined the New York Yankees for two seasons, managing the Amarillo Gold Sox to the 1961 Texas League pennant and helming the Triple-A Richmond Virginians in 1962.

Career with New York Mets

He joined the Mets in 1963, their sophomore season, reunited with Murphy, who was a vice president in the club's front office. His first post was as the skipper of the Quincy Jets of the Class A Midwest League.

In 1964, Robinson was called up to the Mets for the first of three different terms as a Major League coach. That season, he served as bullpen coach under Casey Stengel. After spending a half-season as manager of the Mets' Buffalo Bisons Triple-A farm club in 1965, he returned to New York in midyear to work as the bullpen coach for the Mets' new manager, Wes Westrum, serving through 1967.

Robinson would spend the next decade as a scout for the Mets, except for the 1972 season. That April, he was appointed the Mets' first-base coach to fill the vacancy on the coaching staff left by Yogi Berra's promotion to manager following the sudden death of Gil Hodges.

Sheriff Robinson died in Cambridge, aged 80, in 2002. His record as a minor league manager, over 12 seasons, was 786–821 (.489).

References

• Duxbury, John, and Kachline, Clifford, eds., The Baseball Register, 1967 edition. St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1967.

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
• Coach's page from Retrosheet
• Baltimore Sun obituary