Myers Robinson


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Myers Robinson
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3bMajors:
No
Minneapolis
Position: 3b
First game: April 30, 1888
Last game: May 6, 1888
# of games: 4
The Minneapolis Evening Journal reported M.C. Robinson was signed by Minneapolis on January 10, 1888.

Released May 7, 1888.

Player profile from the Minneapolis Star Tribune (March 17, 1888).


Myers Robinson played for the Cass Club in Detroit prior to signing with Lincoln in the Western League in February 1887. He spent a couple of weeks with the Detroit Wolverines on their trip south in March 1887, as they needed a catcher while one of their regulars was sick. Robinson caught and played first base for Lincoln through June, before deserting the club to go to Omaha (Lincoln Evening Call, June 7, 1887, pg. 4). He was released by Lincoln and subsequently signed by St. Joseph, also in the Western League. After St. Joseph disbanded, he moved on to Kalamazoo. It was reported that when he departed St. Joseph, he took a team uniform and a teammate's bat with him, in addition to skipping out on some debts (St. Joseph Gazette-Herald, July 31, 1887, pg. 4). He finished the season with Kalamazoo in the Ohio State League. He signed with Minneapolis in January 1888; according to a biography in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on March 17, 1888, he was 23 years old at the time.

Robinson appeared in just four games for Minneapolis, all at third base. He was released in early May along with Charlie Parsons, "both proving out-classed in the team" (St. Paul Globe, May 8, 1888, pg. 5). He signed with Jackson in the Tri State League a few days later. After leaving Jackson, he played with Lima in the same league. The Detroit Free Press reported in February 1889 that Robinson "has retired from the diamond."

Myers Robinson has not been positively identified. His name is spelled in various ways during the few years he played professional baseball, sometimes as "Myer", sometimes as "Myers", even sometimes as "Meyer". He is also often referred to as "M.C. Robinson". There was a Myer Robinson, born in 1865 in England to Marcus and Rebecca Robinson, living in Detroit in 1870 and 1880. In the 1880s, the Detroit street directories identify him as Myer C. Robinson, living with his mother. In 1890, he married Bessie Isaacs in Omaha, where they appear to have remained for a while. By 1900, they were back in Detroit, and in the 1910 Census they show up in Chicago. He was back living in Detroit in 1920, but by 1930 his widow was living with their daughter and her family. Family trees on Ancestry.com give his death as 1926, but there is no documentation and no cemetery location.


Batting stats for Minneapolis

DatePosABRBH2B3BHRSBPOAEBBHPBK
4-30-18883b3000031
5-1-18883b3110010
5-4-18883b4000101
5-6-18883b412101731
4 Games142310002115001