Nice reminiscent story Russ! Roberts best baseball buddy Curt Simmons had a great description of Roberts; “he was like a diesel engine, start him up and he’d go all day.” Sawyer was once asked about letting Roberts pitch so much and he had an interesting answer. “Except for 1950 and Konstanty, when I looked out to the bull pen there was no one better than Robbie so I just let him pitch out of it.”
Thanks, Dennis. Ran across this as I was doing my 1950 Phillies research and just saw this as quintessential Roberts. I believe the story of his competitiveness is underrated. He was a bulldog.
Today if a pitcher has one or two complete games, it’s a big deal. They don’t make them like they use to.
Nice reminiscent story Russ! Roberts best baseball buddy Curt Simmons had a great description of Roberts; “he was like a diesel engine, start him up and he’d go all day.” Sawyer was once asked about letting Roberts pitch so much and he had an interesting answer. “Except for 1950 and Konstanty, when I looked out to the bull pen there was no one better than Robbie so I just let him pitch out of it.”
Thanks, Dennis. Ran across this as I was doing my 1950 Phillies research and just saw this as quintessential Roberts. I believe the story of his competitiveness is underrated. He was a bulldog.