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Top 50 Orioles of All Time: #2, Brooks Robinson

There’s an old saying that goes, “You should never meet your heroes, because they’re bound to disappoint you.”

Whoever coined that saying has never heard of Brooks Robinson.

It’s hard to believe that a person could be one of the most talented baseball players in the history of the game and it’d be only his second best quality. But Robinson’s incredible legacy in Baltimore didn’t stem solely from his athletic prowess during his 23-year, Hall of Fame career. No, what makes him truly beloved is that everyone who’s been lucky enough to meet him — from teammates to reporters to his many fans — universally agree he’s a first-ballot inductee into the Hall of Genuinely Wonderful People.