Uncle Robbie
Kavanagh, Jack / Macht, Norman L![Uncle Robbie](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/954/9542360/CHSBZCOP039542360.jpg)
Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. As a Baltimore Oriole in the 1890s the hard-nosed but congenial receiver joined John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and other greats on the roughest team of the game's toughest era. He went on to make a reputation with McGraw's New York Giants as a great developer of pitchers. Subsequently he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers, quickly turning them into pennant winners and gradually b...