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It's #JackieRobinsonDay

12 years later, when I was two years old, the Tigers signed their first Black player. The next year, 1958, the Red Sox would sign theirs.
 
Quiz? Robinson won the 1st 'Rookie of the Year' Award in 1947!!!
Who was the odds on favorite to win that award that year? It was not
Jackie Robinson.

The 'Over-Hyped Rookie Award' was named after the 1947 favorite whose name
has now become associated with very promising rookies who have had less than distinguished careers

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slick said:
Quiz? Robinson won the 1st 'Rookie of the Year' Award in 1947!!!
Who was the odds on favorite to win that award that year? It was not
Jackie Robinson.

The 'Over-Hyped Rookie Award' was named after the 1947 favorite whose name
has now become associated with very promising rookies who have had less than distinguished careers

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Jackie Robinson was anything but “overhyped”.....and claiming he had a “less than distinguished career” is utter nonsense.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Jackie Robinson was anything but “overhyped”.....and claiming he had a “less than distinguished career” is utter nonsense.
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Wow are you dense!!!!
Read the post more carefully. It was the favorite for the award who was overhyped, not Robinson.
You're obviously not a baseball historian like myself.
Who was the odds on favorite to win the new reward?

The hype before spring training in 1947 was so great that publicist Schumacher told the press corps in Phoenix, “He's a sucker if he ever shows up. He should go straight to Cooperstown.”
 
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slick said:
Quiz? Robinson won the 1st 'Rookie of the Year' Award in 1947!!!
Who was the odds on favorite to win that award that year? It was not
Jackie Robinson.

The 'Over-Hyped Rookie Award' was named after the 1947 favorite whose name
has now become associated with very promising rookies who have had less than distinguished careers

​

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Clint Hartung
 
Crovax said:
Clint Hartung
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In 1947 Clint Hartung, the Hondo Hurricane, was going to be the biggest thing to hit New York baseball since Babe Ruth. Like the Babe, the 6-foot-4, 215-pound giant could pitch and hit home runs out of sight.

Hartung played on military teams while serving in the Air Corps. In 1946 he reportedly went 25-0 as a pitcher and hit .567 for the Hickam Field Bombers, based in Pearl Harbor. The Giants offered him a $35,000 bonus to sign after World War II.

New York Daily News columnist Bill Gallo, wrote, “In all my time in sports, I had never seen a ballplayer so heralded before he had played game one in the major leagues. Not DiMaggio… not Mantle… not Williams nor A-Rod or any of them. … (T)his guy, at first look, was Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ruth and Bob Feller all rolled up into one.”
 
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