San Diego's Merv Rettenmund was a longtime teammate and friend to Orioles Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, who died last week at age 86
Near as I can tell, Brooks Robinson never played in San Diego or against the Padres, not even in spring training None of his 15 All-Star Game appearances brought the Orioles' brilliant third baseman to Mission Valley. The Padres were a Pacific Coast League team when Robinson played in his first World Series in 1966. They were National League West cellar dwellers when he returned to the Fall Classic in 1969, 1970 and 1971.
“Mark Belanger, he was the only infielder I’d seen who didn’t wear a cup,” Rettenmund, an outfielder, said of the eight-time Gold Glover. “I wouldn’t go on the playing field without a cup.' Keeping teammates loose was another way Robinson contributed. The native of Little Rock, Ark., had a breezy, colorful way of expressing himself. If harsh realities presented themselves, he sized them up and moved on. Take the Orioles’ doomed late-season pursuit of the Tigers in 1968.
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