Robin Roberts (baseball)
Robin Evan Roberts ( born September 30, 1926 in Springfield, Illinois, † May 6, 2010 in Temple Terrace, Hillsborough County, Florida) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball.
Biography
Robin Roberts was the winningest right-handed pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. Roberts came from Michigan State University where he played baseball and basketball, for professional baseball. In the first year of his professional career, he was disappointed to have to start in Minor League Baseball, but already on 18 June 1948, he made his debut in the National League. This season, he won nine games in his first full season in 1949 he reached fifteen victories. His first season with twenty victories he celebrated 1950th the twentieth victory he achieved in the last game of the season against the Brooklyn Dodgers on October 1, 1950. With this victory, the Phillies secure the title in the National League and reach the World Series against the New York Yankees. This kept the Yankees in four games the upper hand.
By 1955, Roberts reached the mark of twenty victories, from 1952 to 1955 even each the most in the National League every year. His best year in 1952 with 28 wins, seven defeats. In his career, Roberts came to 286 victories in 245 defeats, 2357 strikeouts, an ERA of 3.41, 305 complete games and 45 shutouts. Since 1956, however, he had to struggle with health problems that might be launcher game would not let be as successful as in previous years. In 1962 he was sold to the New York Yankees, for whom he threw a single inning, however, and further transferred him to the Baltimore Orioles. In Baltimore he reached in three and a half years again 42 victories. Other stations in the Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs followed. On 29 August 1966 he played his last game against the Atlanta Braves and was the last victory of his career.
1976 Roberts was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.