Bobby Robinson was an American

United States

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 Negro League baseball

Baseball

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 player. He was known as the "Human Vacuum Cleaner" because of his fielding ability at third base

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.

Robinson started with the semi-pro Mobile Tigers

Mobile Tigers

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 with fellow Negro league players Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige

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 and Ted Radcliffe

Ted Radcliffe

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. He moved on to the Pensacola Giants where he was discovered by the Indianapolis ABC's in 1925. He went on to play for the Birmingham Black Barons

Birmingham Black Barons

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, the Chicago American Giants

Chicago American Giants

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, the Memphis Red Sox

Memphis Red Sox

The Memphis Red Sox were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Memphis, Tennessee from the 1920s until the end of segregated baseball....

, and the Detroit Stars

Detroit Stars

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over the next eight years.

Robinson retired from baseball in 1942. He died on May 17, 2002.