NEW YORK -- The way they'd planned it, Brooks Robinson was not supposed to play in the hot corner. But this weekend, the first-ballot Hall of Fame third baseman was honored once again for his legendary glovework.
"I've always had the good hand-eye coordination," Robinson said before the Rawlings Gold Glove Awards ceremony, where he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. "I was signed as a second baseman. They figured well, that kid is going to get killed over there. Let's move him to third, so he doesn't have to move around that much."
The Orioles couldn't have been more prescient.