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== Life and playing career == [[File:Wilbert Robinson Baseball Card.JPG|100px|thumb|right|1895 Baseball Card]] Born in [[Bolton, Massachusetts]], Robinson was a catcher in the minor [[New England League]] in [[1885 in baseball|1885]] and made it to the major leagues in [[1886 in baseball|1886]] with the [[Philadelphia Athletics]] of the [[American Association (19th century)|American Association]], where he remained until 1890. He lasted in the majors until 1902, playing much of his career with two separate Baltimore Orioles franchises β from 1890 to 1899 with the [[Baltimore Orioles (19th century)|Orioles team]] which folded after the [[1899 in baseball|1899]] [[National League (baseball)|National League]] season, and in 1901β02 with the [[American League]] team which moved to New York City in 1903 and became the [[New York Yankees|Yankees]]. He also spent one season, 1900, with the [[St. Louis Cardinals]]. Over the course of his career, Robinson played 1,316 games as a catcher, which prepared him for his second baseball career as a manager. The star catcher of the Orioles dynasty which won three straight titles from 1894 to 1896, he compiled a career [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]] of .273, with a peak of .353 in the heavy-hitting season of 1894. Durable behind the plate, he caught a [[wikt:tripleheader|triple-header]] in 1896, followed by a double-header the following day.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Blevins|first=Dave|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7CnkH2HIsQC&q=Wilbert+Robinson+11+runs+batted+in&pg=PA823|title=The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia: Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, Soccer|date=2011-12-23|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4616-7370-5|language=en}}</ref> He also was the first catcher to play directly behind the batter at all times, as the previous practice had been to play farther back when there were fewer than two strikes.<ref name=":0" /> A highlight of his career was a seven-[[hit (baseball)|hit]] game June 10, 1892.<ref name=":0" /> He also batted in 11 runs in that game; on September 16, 1924, as manager of the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]], he saw that record eclipsed as [[Jim Bottomley]] of the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] batted in 12 runs. (Robinson, whose team was in contention for the pennant at the time, lamented, "Why did he have to save all those hits for us? Couldn't he have made some of them against <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[San Francisco Giants|Giants]] manager<nowiki>]</nowiki> [[John McGraw (baseball)|McGraw]]?")
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