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  • Brooks Robinson, a Baltimore icon, is remembered.

    Brooks Robinson, a Baltimore icon, is remembered.

    Sportswriter Gordon Beard was among several who spoke at a luncheon honouring Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson following his retirement in 1977. “In New York, they named a candy bar [The Reggie Bar] after Reggie Jackson,” Beard said. We name our children after Brooks Robinson in Baltimore.” Indeed. Brooks Robinson is the most…