Lucky Me: My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball

by Eddie Robinson, C. Paul Rogers III, Tom Grieve (Foreword)

Eddie Robinson’s career lasted sixty-five years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player, a coach, a farm director, a general manager, a scout, and a consultant. During his six and a half decades in baseball, he knew, played with or against, or worked for or with many of baseball’s greats, including Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Rogers Hornsby, Mickey Mantle, Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, George Steinbrenner, Casey Stengel, Bill Veeck, and Ted Williams. The lively autobiography of Robinson, Lucky Me highlights a career that touched all aspects of the game from player to coach to front-office executive and scout. In it Robinson reveals for the first time that the 1948 Cleveland Indians stole the opposition’s signs with the use of a telescope in their drive to the pennant. This edition features a new afterword by C. Paul Rogers III.
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Genres: Baseball, Sports, Biography

300 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 11, 2011

Reviews

[Joe Swearingen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story of a life in baseball. Eddie Robinson is part of a breakfast club I started going to since I have retired. I love baseball and he figured that out early. We talked baseball and I learned he played in MLB and that he wrote this book. It took a while to find a copy as it is not in print. It truly is a Lucky Me story. My luck is enhanced by knowing Eddie and being exposed to this book and him and his story.

[Kenneth Flusche]

Best Baseball Book I've read in a while. I even knew most of the players

[Karl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book after listening to Eddie Robinson on some podcasts, he has just turned 100. An incredible life in baseball and so many stories told in this book. The book reads as you might hear someone tell stories with many tangents along the way. As a baseball fan I enjoyed his many stories and him retelling about his amazing career over his 65 years in the sport.

[Chuck Neumann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this a very interesting book. Many baseball fans don't know who Eddie Robinson is, but he has had a very long career in baseball. A player in the majors in the 40's and 50's, for a period he was one of the finest first baseman in the American League. He served in World War Two, but spent his years in service playing ball in camps. An All-Star as a Senator, White Sox and Philadelphia A, in the World Series with the Indians and Yankees, he covered the ups and downs in a very readable manner. As his playing career wound down he moved into scouting, front office positions and General Manager jobs with the Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers. He was successful but never able to build a championship team as the G.M., but has many interesting stories to tell. Mr. Robinson is still alive, in his mid 90's, and still attending ball games. (I watched a spring training Ranger game where they showed him in the stands, the announcer Tom Grieve mentioned his book.) I enjoyed the book, a fun and interesting read.

[Frank Taranto · Rating 3 out of 5]

An intersting buch of little stories that made up Eddie Robinson's 65 years in baseball.

[Russell R · Rating 4 out of 5]

good baseball book