The 2019 baseball season will be the 150th for the Cincinnati Reds. For ten of those years, Frank Robinson wore #20 for the Reds. In that brief time, he not only was one of the best players in baseball but he was one of the best ever to wear a Reds uniform.
Frank Robinson passed away on Thursday in Los Angeles. And a little bit of the Cincinnati Reds died with him.
Frank Robinson wasn’t a great “five tool” player. A right fielder, his arm was below average. He didn’t have great speed. But there are four main things that stood out about him.