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Black and white portrait photograph of Frank Robinson in his Cleveland Indians baseball uniform, complete with baseball hat. He is at a baseball park with stadium seating and some fans in the background. Caption in margin beneath image reads, "Frank Robinson, author of FRANK: THE FIRST YEAR--a personal, day-by-day account of his first season as the major league's first black manager. Written in collaboration with Dave Anderson, FRANK will be released by Holt, Rinehart and Winston on April 16th." Tribune captions on back read, "MAR 15 1977 / FRANK ROBINSON / Seniority comes quickly;" "MAY 1 - 1977 / Frank Robinson's managing days numbered?;" and "MAY 29 1977 / FRANK ROBINSON / On way out?"

Frank RobinsonFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Robinson (5/3/2007)Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas), is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. During a 21-season career, he became the first player to win League MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues, won the Triple crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series (the 1966 and 1970 Baltimore Orioles), and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement (he is currently sixth).During the last two years of his playing career, he served as the first permanent African-American manager in Major League history, managing the Cleveland Indians to a 186-189 record. He went on to manage the San Francisco Giants, the Baltimore Orioles, the Montreal Expos and the Washington Nationals.Robinson was born in Beaumont, Texas and grew up in Oakland, California. Robinson attended McClymonds High School in Oakland where he was a basketball teammate of future NBA great Bill Russell.

Used: Oakland Tribune