Frank Robinson

CTL-E-6701 · Person · other · 1935–2019

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Frank Robinson (1935–2019) is the only player to win the Most Valuable Player award in both leagues — the National League with Cincinnati in 1961 and the American League with Baltimore in 1966, when he also won the Triple Crown. He hit 586 career home runs, fourth on the all-time list when he retired. In 1975, as player-manager of the Cleveland Indians, he became the first Black manager in Major League Baseball history, and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982.

Notes

Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged athletes packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/athletes/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Baseball — outfielder, manager (Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians) · Photo: Photo: Chuck Scardina · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Robinson_1973.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6701.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Frank Robinson' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Robinson
• baseballhall.org — https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/robinson-frank

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