Robin Yount spent his entire 20-year career in Major League Baseball as a shortstop and center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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40 Facts About Robin Yount
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Robin Yount won two American League Most Valuable Player awards.
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Robin Yount was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 in his first year of eligibility.
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Robin Yount lived briefly in Covington, Indiana, then his family moved to southern California when he was an infant; his father got a job testing rocket engines with Rocketdyne.
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Robin Yount attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills.
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Robin Yount was the third pick overall in the June 1973 Major League Baseball draft, one slot ahead of fellow Hall of Famer and 3,000 hit club member Dave Winfield.
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Robin Yount is currently the last 18-year-old to hit a home run in the Major Leagues.
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On September 14,1975, Robin Yount broke Mel Ott's 47-year-old record for most games played in the major leagues before turning 20.
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Robin Yount threatened to retire from the game and take up professional golf rather than be underpaid or moved to the outfield by the Brewers.
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Robin Yount's demands were met; when he returned to the team, Molitor was moved from shortstop to second base to make room for Robin Yount.
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Robin Yount was an early proponent of weight training – then uncommon in baseball – and by 1980 Yount's power hitting had improved, particularly for a shortstop.
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Year, Robin Yount won his only Gold Glove Award and his first Most Valuable Player Award.
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Robin Yount's performance garnered 27 of 28 possible first place votes in the 1982 MVP balloting.
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Robin Yount made a game-ending, diving catch to preserve a no-hitter by Juan Nieves early in the 1987 season.
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Robin Yount narrowly won a second MVP Award in 1989, making him only the third player to win MVPs at two positions, joining Hank Greenberg and Stan Musial.
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Robin Yount was the first AL player to win multiple MVP awards in over 25 years, since the Yankees' Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.
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Robin Yount collected more hits in the decade of the 1980s than any other player.
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The California Angels were prepared to make a serious offer, but Robin Yount signed a three-year contract with the Brewers worth $9.
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In 1991, Robin Yount was briefly on the disabled list with a kidney stone, only the second stint on the DL in his career; the first one was in 1978.
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On September 9,1992, Robin Yount collected his 3,000th career hit, becoming the 17th player to reach the mark.
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Robin Yount was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Robin Yount was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, his first year of eligibility.
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Robin Yount holds Brewers career records for games, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, RBIs, total bases, walks and strikeouts.
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Robin Yount was the last active major leaguer to have been a teammate of Hank Aaron.
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Robin Yount served as first base coach and bench coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2002 to 2004.
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Robin Yount resigned after the dismissal of Arizona manager Bob Brenly.
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Robin Yount followed suit a few weeks later, accepting a post as the Brewers' bench coach.
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In November 2006, Robin Yount announced he would not return to the team as bench coach for the 2007 season.
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Robin Yount is widely considered to be the greatest player in Brewers history.
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Robin Yount is the only Brewer to win multiple MVP awards and one of two members of the franchise to reach 3,000 hits.
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Robin Yount is the Brewers' all-time leader in games, hits, at-bats, plate appearances, runs, doubles, triples, runs batted in, and walks.
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Robin Yount remains a popular figure in Milwaukee and has made numerous appearances at Brewers On Deck, the team's annual preseason fan-fest.
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Robin Yount was a charter member of the Milwaukee Brewers Wall of Honor when it was created in 2014.
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Robin Yount met his wife Michele at Taft High School and they have been married since 1979.
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Robin Yount's brother Larry was a pitcher and was briefly called up to play in the major leagues.
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Since retiring from baseball, Robin Yount has increased his participation in two of his other passions, professional motorcycle and auto racing.
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In June 2008, Yount announced the creation of a new all-natural lemonade drink, Robinade.
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In 2012, Robin Yount became a minority owner of the Lakeshore Chinooks of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league.
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In 2014, Robin Yount was honored with the "Lombardi Award of Excellence" from the Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation.
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On October 20,2018, Robin Yount threw out the first pitch before Game 7 of the National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and Brewers.
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