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Brooks Robinson
Inducted 1997
Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, universally regarded as the greatest defensive third baseman in the history of professional baseball.
Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was an American professional baseball player who played his entire 23-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 1977. Nicknamed “Mr. Hoover” and “the Human Vacuum Cleaner”, he is generally considered to have been the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history.