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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). |
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.
Date | Pos | AB | R | BH | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | PO | A | E | BB | HPB | K |
4-30-1888 | 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
5-1-1888 | 3b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
5-4-1888 | 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
5-6-1888 | 3b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | ||||
4 Games | 14 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |