Jackie "Overrated" Robinson

[waffen4threich]

So much fucking PR.

Can you find any other modern era, non-pitcher, in the HOF with 1518 career hits?

137 career dingers? Fuck that.

He's not 1/10th the player Ricky Henderson was. Not 1/10th the player Kirby Puckett was. Never mind Aaron or Mays.

Satchell deserved to be the one to break the color barrier not the marginal fraud named Jackie Robinson.

 

[Boxlicker101]

So much fucking PR.

Can you find any other modern era, non-pitcher, in the HOF with 1518 career hits?

137 career dingers? Fuck that.

He's not 1/10th the player Ricky Henderson was. Not 1/10th the player Kirby Puckett was. Never mind Aaron or Mays.

Satchell deserved to be the one to break the color barrier not the marginal fraud named Jackie Robinson.

He was probably good enough to make the Hall, but his main claim to fame was the fact he was the first African American known to have played in the Major Leagues. Here are his career stats:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinja02.shtml

Considering he was the cleanup hitter for the best team in the NL, his annual RBI total is nothing special, but he did have a career .311 BA.

 

[eyer]

Black just ain't your favorite color...

...is it, wafflenhymen.

 

[CandiCame]

Poor Johnny Jackson... He tried so hard...

Didn't he actually play a few games before he got kicked off in 1885? 30 years before Robinson? I don't know shit about sports, but it seems like he oughta get something for that.

 

[badbabysitter]

don't confuse waffle with things like facts

 

[Boxlicker101]

Poor Johnny Jackson... He tried so hard...

Didn't he actually play a few games before he got kicked off in 1885? 30 years before Robinson? I don't know shit about sports, but it seems like he oughta get something for that.

Keokuk was not in the Major Leagues.

 

[waffen4threich]

Willie Mays was the greatest, all around, player.

I believe Ted Williams was a better hitter though.

 

[CandiCame]

Keokuk was not in the Major Leagues.

Oh, the article said it was at the time. Like I said, I know jack shit about sports.

 

[hogjack]

Jack Shit

3rd Base, Boston Red Sox, 1962-1968

 

[marshalt]

Kirby was the best!

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

He was probably good enough to make the Hall, but his main claim to fame was the fact he was the first African American known to have played in the Major Leagues. Here are his career stats:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinja02.shtml

Considering he was the cleanup hitter for the best team in the NL, his annual RBI total is nothing special, but he did have a career .311 BA.

also, he broke the color barrier i believe..

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

 

[Wrong Element]

1518 career hits isn't bad for someone who played his first major league game at age 28.

Class, can anyone give me a reason why Robinson might not have had an earlier start in the big leagues, like basically everyone else who is in the Hall of Fame?

 

[Adre]

1518 career hits isn't bad for someone who played his first major league game at age 28.

Class, can anyone give me a reason why Robinson might not have had an earlier start in the big leagues, like basically everyone else who is in the Hall of Fame?

*raises hand...ooh, ooh* Because of ignorant douchebags like the OP?

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

*raises hand...ooh, ooh* Because of ignorant douchebags like the OP?

lol..

 

[Boxlicker101]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Boxlicker101
He was probably good enough to make the Hall, but his main claim to fame was the fact he was the first African American known to have played in the Major Leagues. Here are his career stats:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...obinja02.shtml

Considering he was the cleanup hitter for the best team in the NL, his annual RBI total is nothing special, but he did have a career .311 BA.

also, he broke the color barrier i believe..

Of course. That's what I said.

 

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[Boxlicker101]

1518 career hits isn't bad for someone who played his first major league game at age 28.

Class, can anyone give me a reason why Robinson might not have had an earlier start in the big leagues, like basically everyone else who is in the Hall of Fame?

There were several reasons. For one thing, he attended college at UCLA until he was 22, unlike most HOF players start pro baseball careers at a much younger age. He was drafted into the ARMY and served until 1944, when he was 25. After that, he got involved in pro baseball and played in the Negro Leagues, followed by playing for Montreal in the International League and Brooklyn in the NL.

JR was a very good baseball player, although no superstar, and his main claim to fame was being the first black player in MLB.

 

[CHNOPS]

Edgy alt is edgy.

 

[islandman]

So much fucking PR.

Can you find any other modern era, non-pitcher, in the HOF with 1518 career hits?

137 career dingers? Fuck that.

He's not 1/10th the player Ricky Henderson was. Not 1/10th the player Kirby Puckett was. Never mind Aaron or Mays.

Satchell deserved to be the one to break the color barrier not the marginal fraud named Jackie Robinson.

You meant Josh Gibson and not Satchel Paige as the latter was not the best Negro player of that generation.

Then again, by not factoring in that Robinson racked up his stats after starting in the majors at age 28 and by adding an extra 'l' to Paige's first name, this tells me that your pseudo anger is contrived at best.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You meant Josh Gibson and not Satchel Paige as the latter was not the best Negro player of that generation.

Then again, by not factoring in that Robinson racked up his stats after starting in the majors at age 28 and by adding an extra 'l' to Paige's first name, this tells me that your pseudo anger is contrived at best.

Either Gibson or Paige, or maybe both, but both men were too old at the time Branch Rickey, as GM of the Dodgers, decided to break the color line. Paige did play in the AL for a couple of years, but he was at least 40 when he started to pitch for the St. Louis Browns.

 

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[islandman]

Either Gibson or Paige, or maybe both, but both men were too old at the time Branch Rickey, as GM of the Dodgers, decided to break the color line. Paige did play in the AL for a couple of years, but he was at least 40 when he started to pitch for the St. Louis Browns.

The Browns were his second major league team.

 

[dan_c00000]

Hey waffen you racist piece of trash, I have a question for you. When is that racist, made up article coming out in the journal you couldn't spell or name properly? You're such a troll.

 

[marshalt]

Pete Rose, Roger Maris, and Shoeless Joe should be in the hall.