Happy Birthday Brooks Robinson!

by Rexx on May 18, 2009 6:03 PM EDT

Former Baltimore Orioles great, Brooks Robinson celebrated his 72nd birthday today, according to a story on the radio station I was listening to this afternoon, 100.7 FM.

They also said that Brooks announced at a speaking engagement last week that he's been battling prostrate cancer and has endured 39 treatments. Just like Brooksie, he's probably really uncomfortable but you'll never know it.

Best wishes to Brooks and thanks for all the great memories you gave us for 26 years, each with a single season contract, not these big bucks long term deals the kids are signing today.

We'll all pray for you, Brooks!

Click here for a video tribute from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

NOTE: I also posted this over at the Orioles blog on SB Nation, Camden Chat.

The opinions posted here are those of the administrator of this blog and his loyal readers. They are in no way official comments from the team, and should not be misconstued as such, even though he thinks he could do just as well or even a better job!

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prostrate, adj., lying face down on the ground

prostate, n., an exocrine gland that secretes alkaline fluids

Water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Ed Reed covers the rest.

by Ampallang on May 18, 2009 6:52 PM EDT reply actions

Damn

Brooks has the “lying face down on the ground” cancer? That sucks

You have to hate losing more than you love winning.

by Mr MaLoR on May 18, 2009 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Got me

But I also heard that he’s beaten the PROSTATE cancer.

Rexx

by Rexx on May 18, 2009 9:36 PM EDT reply actions

I figured it may have been a witty play on words. Just spelling it out for all the Steelers and Browns fans that have recently infested the Beatdown.

Water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Ed Reed covers the rest.

by Ampallang on May 19, 2009 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions

No, it was an honest mistake

I’m nowhere near THAT witty!

Rexx

by Rexx on May 19, 2009 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Always Was and is

My favorite Oriole. Grew up watching the latter part of his career, but the stories alone convinced me about Brooks. From what I understand, the ’70 series was just an amazing display. Plus Spaceman Bill Lee had some very nice things to say about Brooks in his book.

Never thought I would work Spaceman Bill Lee into a Ravens blog… fifth sign of the Apocalypse…

by vlad755 on May 20, 2009 6:46 PM EDT reply actions

I wenrt to game 3 of the 1970 World Series when I was 12 years old

My mom called me out of class to go to the office to get on the phone and asked if I wanted to go. I couldn’t shut up when I got back to class. It was the game that Brooks made that diving to his left catch of the liner hit by Johnny Bench. I have the picture signed by Brooks on my wall. I got it signed at Fantasy Camp in the early 90’s. Funny thing is, I wanted him to sign it, “Thanks for being there,” but he spelled it “their” instead. Guess an oe’ hillbilly from Little Rock, Arkansas never neeeded to learn to spell, eh!?

Rexx

by Rexx on May 21, 2009 10:01 AM EDT reply actions

I’m Jealous

I went to the seventh game of the ’79 series and Eddie Murray, who was my neighbor when I was growing up, gave me tickets to the ’83 series games in Baltimore.

But I was 1 when Brooks made that stab on Bench’s liner… that has got to be one of the most famous pictures in baseball; at least in Oriole history…

by vlad755 on May 22, 2009 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions

I was in my senior year in college

for the ’79 World Series and when we won game one we all were drinking heavily up there and I got into a water fight with a friend who hit my hand w/ a busted beer mug and gave me 17 stitches in my palm late that night. Thank god I was already anesthetized!

Bruce Raffel

by Bruce Raffel on May 22, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Ouch...

…17 stitches; and then we lose game seven -not a good week for you…

by vlad755 on May 22, 2009 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Thankfully,

a lot of my senior year in college was a painless blur….

Bruce Raffel

by Bruce Raffel on May 23, 2009 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions

i have an autographed Brooks Crown gas poster from when he was signing at the Towson State station decades ago.

i didn’t really like when he ate the popcorn after throwing out Bench and when he would throw the hand powder up and smack his hands in front of the crowd….what a show boat who put himself before the game.

most pathetic autograph ever came courtesy of Elrod Hendricks who sat totally unbothered in dark and empty Cranberry Mall in Westminster. just sitting in fron of Subway on a metal fold out chair behind a card table….Eleanor Rigby esque..

by raven on May 24, 2009 12:56 AM EDT reply actions