It's an unfortunate oversight that we now laud Frank Robinson's accomplishments on the baseball field while we slip silently around the era in which he played and the historical obstacles he faced.
Robinson goes to his grave, at 83, with justifiable tributes pouring in. He was the greatest player in all the years of modern Orioles baseball, which now approaches two-thirds of a century.
When he arrived in Baltimore from Cincinnati before the 1966 season, and thereafter led the team to four World Series appearances in six years, he was also one of the only African-American players of importance the club had ever employed.
