Robinson served as player-manager and would provide a franchise highlight when he hit a pinch hit home run on Opening Day.

After protests by heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis ( then stationed at Fort Riley ) and the help of Truman Gibson ( then an assistant civilian aide to the Secretary of War ), Robinson also openly criticized segregated hotels and restaurants that served the Dodger organization ; a number of these establishments integrated as a result, including the five-star Chase Park Hotel in St. Louis.

In 1965, Robinson served as an analyst for ABC's Major League Baseball Game of the Week telecasts, the first black person to do so.

Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's ( NAACP ) million-dollar Freedom Fund Drive in 1957, and served on the organization's board until 1967.

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.

Robinson initially served in the Irish upper house as an independent senator, but in the mid 1970s she joined the Labour Party.

In April 2011, Robinson announced that she would end her role as the show's hostess by the time her contract would expire as she had served longer than she originally intended to.

Robinson is a member of the Labour Party and has served on its National Executive Committee.

Lyons is served by the Lyons Elementary School District 103, which operates 5 elementary schools, two of which are in Lyons ( Costello, and Robinson Elementary Schools ).

In 1979, Robinson finally completed probation, but by 1980 was under arrest again on multiple charges, including embezzlement and check forgery, for which he served 60 days in jail in 1982.

The western edges of the city limits are served by the Wynford Local School District located just west of the city, and the far eastern portion of the city is in the Colonel Crawford Local School District, headquartered in nearby North Robinson.

Robinson is served by the Robinson Independent School District.

As a commander in Starfleet, Archer served as a pilot in the NX warp trials with A. G. Robinson, Duvall and Gardner ( all mentioned in the episode " First Flight "; it is assumed it is this Gardner who becomes Admiral when Maxwell Forrest dies in " The Forge ").

Robinson is most notable for being the founder and front man of the popular Motown vocal group, The Miracles, for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer.

Robinson was born and raised in Southern California ( La Crescenta ) and served a two-year mission for the LDS Church in the Northern States.

Robinson also served as chairman of the Scholars Program, of the Religion Department, and of the Faculty Senate at Lycoming.

* Mary Robinson ( President: 1990 – 97 ) – Former presidents who have not served two terms may nominate themselves for election at any stage.

Robinson served under Lord Liverpool as Vice-President of the Board of Trade between 1812 and 1818, and as joint-Paymaster of the Forces between 1813 and 1817, from which position he sponsored the Corn Laws of 1815.

PMs in whose cabinets Robinson served: clockwise from top l., Lord Liverpool, George Canning, Earl Grey, and Robert Peel

Robinson served as Chancellor for four years, and was regarded as a success in the post.

( Two others, Thomas Chittenden and Moses Robinson, served as governor of the Vermont Republic before Vermont's admission to the Union in 1791.

The bridge has not been replaced and the inhabitants of Port Robinson have been served by a ferry for many years.

While President of the Senate, he served as acting governor for four months in 1913 after Governor Joseph Taylor Robinson resigned.

Arthur Robinson traveled with the baseball clubs as staff correspondent for the American.

Preoccupied with his own defense and his attempts to get Robinson to fight, Pike lessened his attacks on Woodruff, and finally stopped them altogether.

In the ninth, Robinson led off with his second double of the night, a blast off the fence 375 feet deep into left.

The Orioles got a run in the first inning when Breeding, along with Robinson, the two Birds who got a pair of hits, doubled to right center, moved to third on Russ Snyder's single to right and crossed on Kunkel's wild pitch into the dirt in front of the plate.

In the third Frank Robinson hammered a long home run deep into the corner of the bleachers in right center, about 400 feet away, with two men on.

As he left the bus with his money bag, Robinson added, the largest youth accosted him, a quarrel ensued, and the youth knocked him down.

Branwell entered into a secret relationship with his employer's wife, Lydia Robinson.

In the Robinson anemometer the axis of rotation is vertical, but with this subdivision the axis of rotation must be parallel to the direction of the wind and therefore horizontal.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier that had prevented talented African American players from entering the white-only major leagues.

The life of each of the Blackadders is also entwined with their servant, all from the Baldrick family line ( played by Tony Robinson ).

Richards succeeded in stocking the franchise with a plethora of young talent which included Dave Nicholson, Pete Ward, Ron Hansen ( 1960 AL Rookie of the Year ), Milt Pappas, Jerry Adair, Steve Barber ( 20 wins in 1963 ), Boog Powell, Dave McNally and Brooks Robinson.

Nevertheless, Robinson enjoyed a breakout season with a league-high 118 RBIs and won the AL Most Valuable Player Award.

During this stretch, the Orioles began to phase out their veteran infield by replacing Davey Johnson and Brooks Robinson with younger stars Bobby Grich and Doug DeCinces, respectively.

Other former Baltimore announcers include Josh Lewin ( currently with New York Mets ), Bill O ' Donnell, Tom Marr, Scott Garceau, Mel Proctor, Michael Reghi, former major league catcher Buck Martinez, and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher Mike Flanagan and outfielder John Lowenstein.

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as " the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told.

Chaplin's most successful role with the Karno company was a drunk called the Inebriate Swell, a character recognised by Robinson as " very Chaplinesque ".

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Under Veeck's leadership, one of Cleveland's most significant achievements was breaking the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, formerly a player for the Negro League's Newark Eagles in, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

The team failed to improve with Robinson as manager and he was fired in.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

" Robinson codified the mapmaker's understanding that a map must be designed foremost with consideration to the audience and its needs.

* Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 )

Two sequels followed, Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and his Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 ).