Eddie Robinson, oldest living major leaguer, passes away at 100

[SteveA]

The Oriole connection?   His last four major league at bats came as an Oriole, in 1957.   He then served as an Oriole coach for a few years.

We were the 7th AL team that he played for -- in an era when the American League only had 8 teams.  He only missed the Red Sox.

He served as GM of the Rangers in the late 70s/early 80s.

He was actually a 4 time All Star.   I personally had never heard of him.  14.9 career WAR, his best years with the White Sox.

You can debate whether he or Jeff Robinson is the 4th best Robinson in Oriole history.   Looks like Earl Robinson is the 3rd.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robined01.shtml

Apparently the oldest living major leaguer now is George Elder, who is 100, and played 41 games with the St Louis Browns, the Orioles predecessor.   Charlie Maxwell, 94, appears to be the oldest living Baltimore Oriole.   He's just a few weeks older than Billy Gardner.

[WillyM]

If you hadn't told me, I'd never have guessed that Charlie Maxwell once played for the Orioles.  His tenure was very brief, consisting of four pinch-hit appearances in 1955.

I can remember my father taking me to a Sunday doubleheader at Yankee Stadium in May 1962.  He told me to watch out for the Tigers' Charlie Maxwell, who was called the man with the Sunday punch, because it seemed like he always hit a home run on Sundays.

Charlie started both games, so I saw him bat more times in that one doubleheader than he did during his entire time as an Oriole.  No Sunday punches, though.  He went 0-for-6.

Those were the Space Age days.  I remember the Yankee Stadium announcer, Bob Sheppard, calling everyone's attention to the fact that there were special guests in the ballpark that day - the crew of the helicopter that had been first to spot Scott Carpenter's spacecraft after he splashed down earlier that week.  Everybody cheered.