Brooks was the best defensive 3rd baseman I ever saw and I'm 74 and have watched the MLB since I can remember. Whitey Ford, Don Drysdale, Kofax, Mays, Musial were are great in their positions back then but the king of 3rd was Brooks. It was just the way it was. may he forever rest in peace. Such a great player and such a kind man.
An era when men played without the use of steroids, corked bats and juiced balls. With 16 gold gloves to this man's credit, this was by far the best 3rd baseman in history! God bless your sir, may your light shine forever in our hearts as I was fortunate enough to see you and the other great HOF's on those O's teams that made 33rd St feel like home!
What a joy it was to watch Brooks during my childhood, and to witness the class and humility of this wonderful athlete and even better man. A true American treasure. Off to your permanent assignment as the third baseman on heaven's team. Smooth sailing Brooks.
Under the back of the horseshoe at Memorial Stadium was the “ Hit and Run Club “ restaurant that few knew about, but when walked in there was a very large picture possibly 10 x10 of Brooks jumping into the air to congratulate Dave McNally and Andy Etchebarren on the World Series win….so cool to see this…..he was the greatest…..
Godspeed Brooksie, you were and always will be my baseball hero..... they say never meet your heroes you'll be disappointed, well I met mine and as good a third baseman as he was he was a better human being.
I agree, I met him at a Charity Golf Tournament I worked at, and he got up out of his chair to introduce himself to me. 30 years later that stays with me. RIP Brooks.
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo had Mike Schmidt on High Heat a few years ago. As Russo talked about how Schmidt and George Brett were number 1 and 1A in terms of all-time best third basemen, Schmidt quickly told him, “there is one guy you forgot to mention, and that is Brooks Robinson.” Schmidt went on to say “Brooks is sort of like the father of third basemen.” Mike has the offensive numbers; Brooks has the defensive numbers and one can even argue the postseason numbers. But you can tell that Mike has a tremendous amount of respect for Brooks. “He put third base on the map, Brooks Robinson.” - Mike Schmidt
As these clips show, there has perhaps never been a ballplayer with more intense focus and presence of mind than Brooks. Part of his value was in having made even fewer mental mistakes than physical errors (which were rare). He had an extremely high baseball IQ. He was never caught unawares by the developing situation and was a lock to make the correct split-second decision. His defensive plays were jaw-dropping and he was a reliable clutch hitter. Truly he was one of the greatest athletes of all time in the entire realm of professional sports.
As great as he was as a HOF baseball player, he was an even better person. Anyone who ever conversed with him knows this as fact. A Wonderful human being.
There won't be many like Brooks Robinson for multiple reasons, one being there are no one team players anymore because the game has changed, there is no longer any loyalty. Teams aren't loyal to cities and players aren't loyal to teams or put another way the only bond between 3 parties are contracts. Another reason is Brooks was the peak of fielding his position and couldn't have been improved upon, just watch his footwork it is without fault.
"In New York, they named a candy bar after Reggie Jackson. Here In Baltimore, we name our children after Brooks Robinson." - Gordon Beard, sportswriter. RIP Brooks Robinson, a great ballplayer, a better human.
I remember as young boy, my buddies and me aspired to be superstar third basemen in the manner of Brooks Robinson. If you made a great diving snag on a liner, you were playing like Brooks Robinson! Thanks for the post!
RIP MR. ROBINSON 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 You are the greatest 3rd baseman to ever play that position. Had the pleasure of watching you play when I was a kid. God needed a 3rd baseman today go do your thing Brooks Robinson.
Pardon b/c 'waited' is not the right word. I looked. Just never found the clips I sought until this one. A compliment to you. Again, thanks for the posting. @@juliebraden6911
we learn so much from watching how he catch the ball , he is the pioneer and textbook role model of 3rd base catching defense its really a lot of nature instinct, that in the 1950, no one really teach how to catch the ball like this good throwing around 85-90mph
People talk about third basemen who came after Brooks, claiming they were better. When really they just took the way Brooks played and expanded on it. Brooks changed the way guys handled third base and I think a lot of younger fans can't see that.
Three things made Brooks unlike any other 3rd baseman defensively: 1) Cat-like reflexes 2) GREAT release on his throws--(fastest ever getting the ball out of the glove and making the throw IMHO) 3) Most of all--NOBODY fielded the bunt like Brooks--NOBODY!! (Earl Weaver always pointed out that every other 3rd baseman who attempted the bare-hand pickup on the bunt had to take a slight step in back of the ball and sort of "gather himself" prior to making the throw. Brooks would come in full-speed with his lead foot PARALLEL to the ball and subsequent pickup/release all in ONE motion. There's never been a 3rd baseman before or since who could field the bunt like Brooks--you couldn't lay one down on him--no chance!!)
nyterpfan, you sound as if you saw Brooks play for many years, because you are absolutely correct on all three points. You can't teach "reflexes," and advanced metrics don't take into account "time from catch to release" etc. That's one reason (of many) why they're so woefully inadequate - junk science, if you will - especially in trying to measure defense. I hope you get a chance to read and enjoy the seven-part serial I wrote about Robinson (see above). You're exactly the type of person I had in mind when writing it. Cheers, DR
@@donr6705 I did, indeed have the great fortune of watching Brooks Robinson play for several years as a kid growing up in Baltimore. To this day nobody has approached his brilliance defensively at 3rd. (Will definitely check out your seven-part serial on Brooks!!)
I may have witnessed the most miraculous an unbelievable play by Brooks I believe it was 71 or 72 to it was at home memorial and Brooks actually made three errors in a row in one inning two errors on one play a Fielding play and then he threw the ball into right field trying to get the guy at second. I believe it was the very next play that he made another fielding error. The stadium went silent. Prove to me right then and there the guy was human. And when everything was said and done he still won the gold glove at the end of that year. Amazing!!!
The AL leader in Hits during the 1960s was … Brooks Robinson. The Major League leader in Sacrifice Flies (mutually exclusive to Hits) during the 1960s was … Brooks Robinson. But he couldn’t hit for power, right? Brooks Robinson was #3 in the AL (behind Yastrzemski and Killebrew) in EXTRA-BASE Hits during the 1960s He’s a Top Five player in history.
Too bad he and Ripken were a few years apart in the era they played in. Had they been together, it might have been the best left side of an infield ever seen. Pretty cool that Palmer played with them both though.
Ripken was great, no doubt. However, people often sleep on Mark Belanger. He was such an excellent defensive shortstop that he was 41 Wins Above Replacement for his career although he was a career .228 hitter.
@@hardestyrl GREAT point!! Belanger was almost Brooks' equal defensively. Tony Kubek said it himself: "Belanger made plays Ozzie Smith could only dream about."
There are so many things I could say about each play here, but I’ll limit it to one. Go to 8:40 in the video (sorry, I don’t know how to direct link it). Robinson purposefully waited for the third bounce … which was a terrible hop, right off the corner of the grass where it meets the dirt (you may need to watch this segment 5 times to really see it, but the ball came up at about a 45-degree angle). Somehow, Robinson adjusted for that, and the time interval from when the ball hit his mitt, and when the umpire called the runner out, was about 1/2 second. It went down in the books as an “Assist,” but to this day (and I saw it on TV in 1970), it’s an unbelievable play to me.
In 1975 at bobby Maduro stadium where the orioles use to play to prepare for the season brooks was taking to a relative he look at me I ask if he could give me his autograph when he finish talking to his relative he excuse him self to the relative an give me his autograph I thank him he shake my hand that is moment that i will never rest in peace brooks robinson the greatest 3rd baseman of all time
Im 74 now grew up watching these great ballplayers and with out question Brooks Robinson was one of the greatest ,l feel lucky that l got to see such greatness RIP Brooks we will see you again in the top of the ninth
@@juliebraden6911That's funny. X (formerly known as Twitter) stamped the Orioles' announcement of Robinson's death at 2:39 pm PDT. I submitted my post here at 3:20 pm PDT, not even one hour after the news broke. I checked the discussion of this video for comments on Robinson's death before I submitted my post and found none. Then you come along 15 hours later to see my post sitting on top of a stack of other comments on Robinson's passing, all dated "1 day ago", and assUme that I must have submitted my post after so many other people already commented. I can only imagine you didn't even bother to check the timestamps on all the other posts before blasting me for posting an "hours late news bulletin nobody needed". Maybe you should have. Could have saved you from the taste of your own toe jam. 😉
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Brooks was the best defensive 3rd baseman I ever saw and I'm 74 and have watched the MLB since I can remember. Whitey Ford, Don Drysdale, Kofax, Mays, Musial were are great in their positions back then but the king of 3rd was Brooks. It was just the way it was. may he forever rest in peace. Such a great player and such a kind man.
You were one of the greatest, Mr. Robinson. May you rest in peace.
An era when men played without the use of steroids, corked bats and juiced balls. With 16 gold gloves to this man's credit, this was by far the best 3rd baseman in history! God bless your sir, may your light shine forever in our hearts as I was fortunate enough to see you and the other great HOF's on those O's teams that made 33rd St feel like home!
George Brett and Mike Schmidt.
@@spacedude1145Brooks is the greatest 3rd basemen ever. Nobody will ever touch him
What a joy it was to watch Brooks during my childhood, and to witness the class and humility of this wonderful athlete and even better man. A true American treasure. Off to your permanent assignment as the third baseman on heaven's team. Smooth sailing Brooks.
AMEN !
The greatest glove of all time! Rest In Peace, Mr Robinson. Every kid in the 60’s and 70’s wanted to be you!!
I was an 80s kid and still looked up to Brooks.
I’m now 62. Brooks has been my hero now for 56 years of them.
Same
Rip To One Of The Greatest 3rd Baseman In Baseball. 🙏🙏🙏
RIP Brooks Robinson. He was the greatest third baseman I ever saw!
Under the back of the horseshoe at Memorial Stadium was the “ Hit and Run Club “ restaurant that few knew about, but when walked in there was a very large picture possibly 10 x10 of Brooks jumping into the air to congratulate Dave McNally and Andy Etchebarren on the World Series win….so cool to see this…..he was the greatest…..
The King of all 3rd Basemen! You were a defensive gem. Class act on and off the field. RIP Brooks! ⚾️
This is so fun to watch thanks for posting RIP you were one of the greatest of my youth
Absolutely loved watching Brooks when I was a kid. Best 3rd baseman of all time. So glad he was on my home team. GO O'S!!!!
Best in his era. He couldn’t touch what Manny Machado/Nolan Arenado do today. Not his fault as players are simply better now
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@@jennatailssYou probably think Michael Jordan was more dominant than Wilt. Not. Even. Close.
@@jennatailss WHAT A ASININE COMMENT.
@@jimibmore yeah you’re right…he wasn’t even best in his era
That would go to Mike Schmidt/Eddie Matthews
The human vacuum. Truly heartbroken.
RIP, Legend.
Godspeed Brooksie, you were and always will be my baseball hero..... they say never meet your heroes you'll be disappointed, well I met mine and as good a third baseman as he was he was a better human being.
A most amazing human being for sure
I agree, I met him at a Charity Golf Tournament I worked at, and he got up out of his chair to introduce himself to me. 30 years later that stays with me. RIP Brooks.
i knew he was an incredible fielder, maybe one of the best 3B of all time, but was unaware just how much of a clutch hitter he was also, amazing
Greatest third baseman that ever played the game.
Mike Schmidt greatest third baseman of all time.
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo had Mike Schmidt on High Heat a few years ago. As Russo talked about how Schmidt and George Brett were number 1 and 1A in terms of all-time best third basemen, Schmidt quickly told him, “there is one guy you forgot to mention, and that is Brooks Robinson.” Schmidt went on to say “Brooks is sort of like the father of third basemen.” Mike has the offensive numbers; Brooks has the defensive numbers and one can even argue the postseason numbers. But you can tell that Mike has a tremendous amount of respect for Brooks.
“He put third base on the map, Brooks Robinson.” - Mike Schmidt
Defensively
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As these clips show, there has perhaps never been a ballplayer with more intense focus and presence of mind than Brooks. Part of his value was in having made even fewer mental mistakes than physical errors (which were rare). He had an extremely high baseball IQ. He was never caught unawares by the developing situation and was a lock to make the correct split-second decision. His defensive plays were jaw-dropping and he was a reliable clutch hitter. Truly he was one of the greatest athletes of all time in the entire realm of professional sports.
As a Reds’ fan I remember the great plays Mr Robinson made in 1970.
As an homage to him I hope the Orioles win the World Series this 2023
As great as he was as a HOF baseball player, he was an even better person. Anyone who ever conversed with him knows this as fact. A Wonderful human being.
When I was a kid, if someone made a great play on a ground ball he did a “Brooks Robinson”.
I was at a game where Brooks hit 3 HRs. Class act on & off the field.
He never hit 3 home runs in a single game.
R.I.P. Brooks... it was an honor to watch you play..
What a joy for Boog to be on the recieving end of those throws from 3rd
Boog was a vastly underrated defensive player in his own right.
The throws are always perfect.
...and gets rid of the ball so quick.
There won't be many like Brooks Robinson for multiple reasons, one being there are no one team players anymore because the game has changed, there is no longer any loyalty. Teams aren't loyal to cities and players aren't loyal to teams or put another way the only bond between 3 parties are contracts. Another reason is Brooks was the peak of fielding his position and couldn't have been improved upon, just watch his footwork it is without fault.
Grew up watching Brooks, the glove was a given but this video just reminds us all what a rocket harm he had.
Your right..cannon
He had the arm, the bat, the glove. He was incredible.
9:44 Rest in Peace, Brooks.
I got to go to the Orioles world series clinching game 5 against the Reds in 1970. I'm going to miss you Brooks.
RIP legend.
The Human Vacuum Cleaner.
Hats off to the Robinson brothers.
GOAT !!!
Brooks was one of the best people I've ever met. An incredible baseball player and an even better person!
Phenomenal Player! RIP Brooks Robinson!
Rip sir. Never heard of you so now I’m getting educating. Happy I am
Not a sports fan, but I do appreciate seeing how Brooks Robinson played. Such talent. RIP Brooks.
"In New York, they named a candy bar after Reggie Jackson. Here In Baltimore, we name our children after Brooks Robinson." - Gordon Beard, sportswriter. RIP Brooks Robinson, a great ballplayer, a better human.
Thanks for the memories Brooks. Always loved the Robinson brothers on the Os when I was a kid.
RIP to the greatest Oriole of all time.
Thank you, Brooksy. We know what brilliance looks like at third because of you.
I remember as young boy, my buddies and me aspired to be superstar third basemen in the manner of Brooks Robinson. If you made a great diving snag on a liner, you were playing like Brooks Robinson! Thanks for the post!
Brooks was my hero. Such a great guy, by all accounts....So inspiring...my guy. Im still playin' at 73😎
RIP MR. ROBINSON 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 You are the greatest 3rd baseman to ever play that position. Had the pleasure of watching you play when I was a kid. God needed a 3rd baseman today go do your thing Brooks Robinson.
R.I.P. Brooks Robinson
RIP "The Human Vacuum Cleaner" He just made it look WAY too easy! One of the GOATs! 🙏🙏
I have waited 50 years for a compilation of my fave MLB player of all time, good ol' #5! Thanks for posting!
Not sure why you waited when the internet exists.
Pardon b/c 'waited' is not the right word. I looked. Just never found the clips I sought until this one. A compliment to you. Again, thanks for the posting. @@juliebraden6911
we learn so much from watching how he catch the ball , he is the pioneer and textbook role model of 3rd base catching defense
its really a lot of nature instinct, that in the 1950, no one really teach how to catch the ball like this
good throwing around 85-90mph
People talk about third basemen who came after Brooks, claiming they were better. When really they just took the way Brooks played and expanded on it. Brooks changed the way guys handled third base and I think a lot of younger fans can't see that.
Boog Powell never had to dig out an errant throw from Brooks! His throws from 3rd base were always right on target.
The greatest fielding 3rd baseman of all time. RIP SIR BROOKS🙏🙏🧡🧡
You act like he didn't have the bat to match his glove!
Three things made Brooks unlike any other 3rd baseman defensively:
1) Cat-like reflexes
2) GREAT release on his throws--(fastest ever getting the ball out of the glove and making the throw IMHO)
3) Most of all--NOBODY fielded the bunt like Brooks--NOBODY!! (Earl Weaver always pointed out that every other 3rd baseman who attempted the bare-hand pickup on the bunt had to take a slight step in back of the ball and sort of "gather himself" prior to making the throw. Brooks would come in full-speed with his lead foot PARALLEL to the ball and subsequent pickup/release all in ONE motion. There's never been a 3rd baseman before or since who could field the bunt like Brooks--you couldn't lay one down on him--no chance!!)
nyterpfan, you sound as if you saw Brooks play for many years, because you are absolutely correct on all three points. You can't teach "reflexes," and advanced metrics don't take into account "time from catch to release" etc. That's one reason (of many) why they're so woefully inadequate - junk science, if you will - especially in trying to measure defense.
I hope you get a chance to read and enjoy the seven-part serial I wrote about Robinson (see above). You're exactly the type of person I had in mind when writing it.
Cheers,
DR
@@donr6705 I did, indeed have the great fortune of watching Brooks Robinson play for several years as a kid growing up in Baltimore. To this day nobody has approached his brilliance defensively at 3rd. (Will definitely check out your seven-part serial on Brooks!!)
Boy, #2 in your list especially!
And even when he caught the ball with his glove in a hurry running forward, he was ready to throw in a second.
I may have witnessed the most miraculous an unbelievable play by Brooks I believe it was 71 or 72 to it was at home memorial and Brooks actually made three errors in a row in one inning two errors on one play a Fielding play and then he threw the ball into right field trying to get the guy at second. I believe it was the very next play that he made another fielding error. The stadium went silent. Prove to me right then and there the guy was human. And when everything was said and done he still won the gold glove at the end of that year. Amazing!!!
JUST IN CASE YOU FORGOT HOW DAMN GOOD HE WAS ! ...... RIP Brooks
God Bless Brooks RIP 🙏🏻
RIP .
RIP LEGEND
Loved Brooks Robinson at Memorial Stadium.
We've lost another one of the heroes of my youth. What am I to make of that?
so good to hear Chuck Thompson again.
Brooks was the best!
thanks..i believe best defensive player of all time and a clutch hitter.
Rest in Peace Brooks. You taught an entire generation how to play The Hot Corner. Good speed.
Sept. 26th, 2023 #RIP.
Boog Powell got a lot of putouts courtesy of Brooks Robinson.
IMO, the greatest defensive 3rd baseman to ever play the game!
lol "imo". It's pretty much everybody's opinion, egotist.
BEAUTIFUL.
-BRIAN.
GOAT. Simple as that. R.I.P
RIP Legend.
Also great to hear a voice I grew up with and loved- Chuck Thompson. Baseball was so much better in those days in every way.
Some of these orioles teams might have been the best teams ever assembled.
All those names...Blair, Johnson, Powell, Belanger...
I think every major league team wanted a Brooks Robinson at third base
You were amazing!
Rest in peace
He was just a phenomenal ballplayer. Choosing sides, you would choose Brooks Robinson every time.
Dude was the best Ack
We all know about his fielding abilities, but Brook's was a fantastic clutch hitter, especially in big games.
That was his other nickname, "Mr. Clutch".
Well yeah knew that too and his name doesn't have an apostrophe in it.
Thanks for the post!
The AL leader in Hits during the 1960s was … Brooks Robinson.
The Major League leader in Sacrifice Flies (mutually exclusive to Hits) during the 1960s was … Brooks Robinson.
But he couldn’t hit for power, right?
Brooks Robinson was #3 in the AL (behind Yastrzemski and Killebrew) in EXTRA-BASE Hits during the 1960s
He’s a Top Five player in history.
Rest in peace Brooks you were the best
The gud ole days, ain't the beer cold. 🍻
RIP
Always wanted to play like Brooks the Human Vaccuum! Got the opportunity once in a championship game.
When baseball was baseball. And listening to Curt Gowdy just makes this video even that much better.
It's still baseball, old timer. Go change your diaper.
👍👍👍👍
GOAT
Blessings
love him
本当にイイ時代だ❗😔
As a third baseman, I wish I knew about this guy sooner, RIP
lol how could you not know Brooks Robinson
@@juliebraden6911 was never into MLB. I just liked to play the sport.
Too bad he and Ripken were a few years apart in the era they played in. Had they been together, it might have been the best left side of an infield ever seen. Pretty cool that Palmer played with them both though.
Agreed. No ball was gonna get through that left side.
Ripken was great, no doubt. However, people often sleep on Mark Belanger. He was such an excellent defensive shortstop that he was 41 Wins Above Replacement for his career although he was a career .228 hitter.
@@hardestyrl GREAT point!! Belanger was almost Brooks' equal defensively. Tony Kubek said it himself: "Belanger made plays Ozzie Smith could only dream about."
The BEST defensive 3rd baseman of all time...
RIP MR BROOKS ROBINSON
There are so many things I could say about each play here, but I’ll limit it to one.
Go to 8:40 in the video (sorry, I don’t know how to direct link it). Robinson purposefully waited for the third bounce … which was a terrible hop, right off the corner of the grass where it meets the dirt (you may need to watch this segment 5 times to really see it, but the ball came up at about a 45-degree angle). Somehow, Robinson adjusted for that, and the time interval from when the ball hit his mitt, and when the umpire called the runner out, was about 1/2 second. It went down in the books as an “Assist,” but to this day (and I saw it on TV in 1970), it’s an unbelievable play to me.
La aspiradora humana descanse en paz el mejor tercera base de mlb
I could only imagine how Boog Powell felt at 1st base, Having the pleasure to catch a ball from Brooks
5
In 1975 at bobby Maduro stadium where the orioles use to play to prepare for the season brooks was taking to a relative he look at me I ask if he could give me his autograph when he finish talking to his relative he excuse him self to the relative an give me his autograph I thank him he shake my hand that is moment that i will never rest in peace brooks robinson the greatest 3rd baseman of all time
Im 74 now grew up watching these great ballplayers and with out question Brooks Robinson was one of the greatest ,l feel lucky that l got to see such greatness RIP Brooks we will see you again
in the top of the ninth
Top? Why are you making him play on the road for all eternity?
I love eem
The Greatest 3rd baseman ever
My Grandfather told me he was the greatest infielder to ever play
Without Brooks and Belanger (who is horribly underrated), Palmer might not be in the Hall.
The Orioles reported today (2023.09.26) that Brooks Robinson has died at 86. RIP, Brooks! 😢
Thanks for the hours late news bulletin that nobody needed. I mean we all showed up here, obviously we know.
@@juliebraden6911That's funny. X (formerly known as Twitter) stamped the Orioles' announcement of Robinson's death at 2:39 pm PDT. I submitted my post here at 3:20 pm PDT, not even one hour after the news broke. I checked the discussion of this video for comments on Robinson's death before I submitted my post and found none. Then you come along 15 hours later to see my post sitting on top of a stack of other comments on Robinson's passing, all dated "1 day ago", and assUme that I must have submitted my post after so many other people already commented. I can only imagine you didn't even bother to check the timestamps on all the other posts before blasting me for posting an "hours late news bulletin nobody needed". Maybe you should have. Could have saved you from the taste of your own toe jam. 😉