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Brooks Robinson
robs Lee May
To pick out one Brooks Robinson play from the 1970 World Series is like trying to pick out one diamond from the case at Tiffany's. But his play on Lee May in Game 1 kicked off possibly the greatest start-to-finish postseason defensive exhibition of all time.
Sixth inning. Tie game. No outs. Nobody on. May led off the inning with a sizzling one-hopper that whizzed over the bag fair, then hooked into foul territory on the way to the left-field corner. Until the great Brooksie got in the way.
Robinson didn't even dive. He came from fair territory, at the back of the infield dirt, all the way across the line. He lunged. He made an impossible backhanded catch. Then he did a wheeling 180 and somehow got enough on a one-hop throw to first to beat May by half a step.
Robinson went on to make about eight plays worthy of anyone's highlight reel, won the Series MVP award and got a new car from Sport Magazine out of it. To which Johnny Bench said: "If he wanted a car that badly, we'd have given him one."
Robinson robbed Bench three times in the Series -- including a Game 3 play that Curt Gowdy called this way: "Would you believe THAT? This guy's in another world."
Lefthander Cuellar and McNally kept Brooksie awful busy
Brooks Robinson
To pick out one Brooks Robinson play from the 1970 World Series is like trying to pick out one diamond from the case at Tiffany's. But his play on Lee May in Game 1 kicked off possibly the greatest start-to-finish postseason defensive exhibition of all time.
Sixth inning. Tie game. No outs. Nobody on. May led off the inning with a sizzling one-hopper that whizzed over the bag fair, then hooked into foul territory on the way to the left-field corner. Until the great Brooksie got in the way.
Robinson didn't even dive. He came from fair territory, at the back of the infield dirt, all the way across the line. He lunged. He made an impossible backhanded catch. Then he did a wheeling 180 and somehow got enough on a one-hop throw to first to beat May by half a step.
Robinson went on to make about eight plays worthy of anyone's highlight reel, won the Series MVP award and got a new car from Sport Magazine out of it. To which Johnny Bench said: "If he wanted a car that badly, we'd have given him one."
Robinson robbed Bench three times in the Series -- including a Game 3 play that Curt Gowdy called this way: "Would you believe THAT? This guy's in another world."
Lefthander Cuellar and McNally kept Brooksie awful busy
