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Eddie Robinson (1920–2021), oldest living former MLB player

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Eddie Robinson was the oldest living former Major League Baseball (MLB) player and the last surviving member of the 1948 World Series winning Cleveland Indians.Robinson got his start in the minor leagues before being called up by the Indians in 1942.

His career was interrupted by military service: He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before returning home, and to the Indians, in 1946.

Robinson went on to play for seven of the eight teams that were then in existence – after being traded to the Washington Senators in 1949, he played for the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and Baltimore Orioles.

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