Oldest Indians champion rooting for new winners

CLEVELAND — It is a unique distinction, but it’s one Eddie Robinson has no interest in maintaining. The last living member of the last Indians team to win the World Series? That’s not exactly a badge of honor for the 95-year-old former first baseman on the 1948 champs.

“I keep wanting them to win a World Series, and it’s been more than 60 years,” Robinson said. “I think it’s time. And this may be the year.”

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Robinson, who is also the oldest living former player for the Yankees and Tigers, is less than two months from his 96th birthday, and his mind and his interest in baseball are still quite sharp. He lived what he describes as a “lifetime of baseball,” first with a playing career that spanned 13 Major League seasons, then as a coach and farm director and, eventually, as the general manager of the Braves (1972-76) and Rangers (’77-82). He finished his working days as a scout for the Red Sox and chronicled his 65 years in the game in his book, “Lucky Me.”

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It is the Cleveland connection, though, that stands out at the outset of the 2016 World Series. Robinson, who makes his home in Fort Worth, Texas, and identifies himself as a Rangers fan, hopes this is the Fall Classic that will bring the Indians their first championship in 68 years.

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With Texas knocked out in the American League Division Series, Robinson said he’s all in on Cleveland.

“They have a very interesting team,” Robinson said. “They have a team where hardly anybody knows anything about the players. I didn’t. I went to see them play here in Texas, and I didn’t know any of the …

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