Brooks Robinson Marquee Hall of Fame 1983

Baltimore brought him up at eighteen in 1955 and he never played for another club. In 1964 he hit .317 with 28 home runs and led the American League with 118 runs batted in, which won him the Most Valuable Player award. He made fifteen consecutive All-Star teams starting in 1960.

What people came to watch was the glove. He won the Gold Glove every year from 1960 through 1975 and played on four pennant winners; Baltimore took the World Series in 1966 and again in 1970. His fielding in that 1970 Series against Cincinnati won him its Most Valuable Player award and became the thing he is remembered for.

He finished with 2,848 hits, 268 home runs and 23 seasons, all of them in Baltimore. The writers elected him in 1983 with 344 votes of 374. Baltimore retired his number and later put up a statue of him at Camden Yards. He stayed in the city as a broadcaster and died in Maryland in 2023, at eighty-six.