Editing Wilbert Robinson (section)

===Brooklyn Dodgers ===
In 1914, Robinson took over the National League [[Brooklyn]] franchise. The team was known by various nicknames, including Bridegrooms, Superbas, and Dodgers, but during Robinson's managerial tenure, which lasted until 1931, the club was as often referred to as the "Robins" in honor of their manager, who had acquired the nickname "Uncle Robbie." (The frequently error-prone Dodger teams of this era were also sometimes derisively known as "Uncle Robbie's Daffiness Boys.") The Dodgers had finished the previous year with a 65-84 record that was buoyed by stars such as [[Zack Wheat]] and [[Jake Daubert]] (with the latter having won the National League's MVP award). Robinson would lead them to a 75-79 record in 1914, {{frac|19|1|2}} games behind first while finishing 5th for the first time since 1907. He followed it up with an 80-72-2 second season that had them finish third in the League while acquiring future Hall of Fame pitcher [[Rube Marquard]] from New York.

By the halfway point of the 1916 season, the Robins were already 15 games above .500. By the time of October, the Robins were holding firm with 91 wins and a bare lead over the [[Philadelphia Phillies]]. Facing New York for the final four-game series, they won three to clinch the pennant. It was the first time Brooklyn had won the pennant since [[1900 Brooklyn Superbas season|1900]], and they would compete in their first ever [[1916 World Series|World Series]]. They would face the [[1916 Boston Red Sox season|Boston Red Sox]], managed by [[Bill Carrigan]] that had future Hall of Famers with [[Babe Ruth]] and [[Harry Hooper]] while making their fourth appearance in the [[World Series]] in thirteen years. The Red Sox would win the title, which was the third in four that they would win from 1912 to 1918.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1916 World Series - Boston Red Sox over Brooklyn Robins (4-1) |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1916_WS.shtml |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> Marquard was outmatched in Game 1 by [[Ernie Shore]], as Boston had a 6-1 lead before Brooklyn came close to rallying in the ninth inning, when [[Carl Mays]] was brought in to curtail a bases-loaded situation that led to Brooklyn scoring four runs but falling one run short. Boston then won Game 2 in fourteen innings, which featured no scoring for ten straight innings until Boston had a walk-off single. Brooklyn scored in the first inning of that game and promptly did not score again until the 3rd inning of the next game. Brooklyn held on to bounce back in Game 3 after nearly blowing a 4-0 lead, but Boston rallied in Game 4 with a three-run inside-the-park home run by [[Larry Gardner]] proving the difference in a 6-2 game. Game 5 featured Boston scoring four unanswered after Brooklyn had a brief lead in the second inning, as Boston won the series in five games (they batted .238 for the series, but Brooklyn batted .200). Brooklyn slumped in the next three seasons, finishing 70-81-5 for a seventh place finish in 1917 before finishing 5th in the next two years, although a trade for [[Burleigh Grimes]] (a fellow future Hall of Famer) in 1918 would be a helping hand soon enough. However, in 1920, he led them to a 24-game improvement with 93 wins in 155 games for a seven game cushion over New York for Brooklyn's second pennant in four years. However, the [[1920 Cleveland Indians season|Cleveland Indians]] (led by player/manager [[Tris Speaker]]) would win the [[1920 World Series|World Series]] five games to two in a series that saw no lead changes at any point, as the team that scored first won the game, with Cleveland scoring as early as the first inning (twice) and as late as the sixth (Game 6). Brooklyn was outscored 21-8.

Robinson continued to manage the Robins for eleven more seasons, with five winning seasons in the mix. His best finish was the 1924 team, which finished 2nd with a 92-62 record while being buoyed by NL MVP [[Dazzy Vance]], who had completed the [[Triple Crown (baseball)|Triple Crown]] in leading the NL in wins (28), strikeouts (262) and ERA (2.16). The Robins had a slow run going into August, which included being down by as many as 13 games for first on the 9th. However, the Robins went on a 13-game winning streak from August 25 to September 6, and they were tied for the NL lead three times in the month. On September 23, with four games to play, the Robins were tied for the lead with the Giants before facing the [[Chicago Cubs]] (soon tabbed to finish 5th in the standings) and the [[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]] (the league doormat) for two games each, with Vance tabbed to start two of them (the Giants, however, had five games left to play). However, they would win and lose twice, which included a 10th inning home run off Vance by [[Gabby Hartnett]] on the 23rd that doomed the Robins.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 23, 1924 |title=Chicago Cubs at Brooklyn Robins Box Score, September 23, 1924 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO192409230.shtml |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=1924 Brooklyn Robins Schedule |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1924-schedule-scores.shtml |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> The Giants finished at 93-60 to finish {{frac|1|1|2}} games in first.

The Robins also had their share of struggles, which included seven times of finishing in the second division (below 4th), including five in a row from 1925 to 1929, which coincided with Robinson serving as both manager and team president (having been named after owner [[Charles Ebbets]] had died). Robinson finished his career with two fourth place finishes in 1930 and 1931. He closed out his career on September 27, 1931 in [[Ebbets Field]], fittingly against McGraw and his New York Giants. Robinson's Robins won 12-3.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 27, 1931 |title=New York Giants at Brooklyn Robins Box Score, September 27, 1931 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO193109270.shtml |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Max Carey]] as manager while hunting at his camp in [[Brunswick, Georgia]].

In his 18 years at the helm of the Robins, Robinson compiled a record of 1,375–1,341–19, including National League championships in 1916 and 1920 – Brooklyn's only pennants between 1901 and 1940. His 1,375 NL victories were, at the time, the 3rd-highest total in National League history, trailing only the totals of John McGraw (then with 2,652) and [[Fred Clarke]] (1,602).

Robinson was highly regarded for his ability to draw outstanding performances from his pitching staffs, a result of his many years as a catcher. Among the pitchers he guided to success were [[Joe McGinnity]] with both Orioles teams and the Giants, [[Rube Marquard]] with the Giants, and [[Dazzy Vance]] and [[Burleigh Grimes]] with the Dodgers. Another pitcher who would later recall Robinson's excellent advice, although they never played together during a regular season, was [[John K. Tener|John Tener]], who in the 1910s served simultaneously as NL president and [[List of Governors of Pennsylvania|Governor of Pennsylvania]].

Robinson was manager when [[Al López]] started out as a catcher in the majors, as Lopez made his debut in 1928 before becoming a regular in 1930 who spent the first six seasons of a 19-year career with Brooklyn. Robinson watched Lopez' style and finally hollered, "Tell that punk he got two hands to catch with! Never mind the {{linktext|Fancy Dan}} stuff." Lopez went on to eventually surpass Robinson in the number of games played as catcher (1,316) and Lopez in the most games caught at 1,918 in 1945. That record was not broken for four decades; in 1951, Lopez became a manager and won two pennants and 1,410 games in seventeen seasons that led to his induction into the Hall of Fame.