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1960s Frank Robinson Baltimore Orioles Warm-Up Jacket
The only man to ever win the MVP in both leagues and eventually the first African-American manager in the big leagues. The jacket represents the great fork in the road of his magnificent career -- when he came to the Orioles in one of the worst trades to ever go down in baseball. It happened in '65 when Reds GM Bill DeWitt, notoriously calling him "an old 30" (even after Robby hit .306 with with 29 homers and 96 RBIs in '64), dealt him primarily for poor Pappas, a pretty good pitcher put in the wrong spot at the wrong time who lives in history as the schlemiel traded for Frank Robinson -- though not quite as ignominiously as DeWitt(less), who was all but chased out of Cincinnati. We don't know if he's ever been allowed to come back, either. Robinson went on to win 4 pennants, 2 championships, the '66 World Series MVP and the '66 AL MVP (to go with his '61 NL MVP and '56 Rookie of the Year -- is there anything this man didn't win?). The jacket is familiar to anyone who recalls Frank, Brooks, Boog, Palmer and Blair strutting around them back in the '60s (though they did have to slink away in them in '69 after the last out at Shea Stadium). The wool beauty is black with orange trimming around the collar, shoulders and waistband. "Orioles" scripted in orange across the zippered front. Black leather on the 2 pockets. Robinson's number "20" is hand-stitched on the underside of the right front next to the "Rawlings" label and size "48" tag. Condition of the jacket is splendid on the exterior, a grade lower on the interior due to some soiling and a hole on a seam near the collar. Great jacket from an exemplary player and an extraordinary man.
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