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Yount later recalled at a Brewers banquet that he did not have to dive to catch the line drive hit by Murray but figured ending the game with a diving catch would be the icing on the cake for Nieves ' no-hitter.
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Yount and later
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 ( Alex Rodriguez would later join this group ).
Yount followed suit a few weeks later, accepting a post as the Brewers ' bench coach.
Yount and at
Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.
Yount made his major league debut the following April, at eighteen years old.
Yount also threw out the first ball for Game 2 of the 2011 NLDS, with the throw being caught by Sveum, who was at the time the Brewers hitting coach.
Harry Yount at Berthoud Pass in 1874
Taft's football team plays its home games at Robin Yount Stadium, named for the Taft alum who went on to became a baseball Hall-of-Famer.
In 1982, first baseman Cooper was at the heart of the one of the era's great lineups, batting third behind Paul Molitor and Robin Yount, and in front of Ted Simmons, Gorman Thomas, and Charlie Moore.
Yount and Brewers
During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.
Don Sutton started against Jim Palmer and the Brewers won 10 – 2, thanks to Robin Yount hitting two clutch home runs, clinching the AL East Division.
The Brewers had many individual accomplishments during their two playoff years, as both in 1981 and 1982, Brewer players won both the AL MVP and Cy Young awards, with Rollie Fingers winning both awards in 1981, and Robin Yount winning the MVP and Pete Vuckovich winning the Cy Young in 1982.
Despite not making the playoffs, the Brewers had some other memorable moments, as Pat Listach hit. 290 and stole 54 bases while winning the AL Rookie of the Year award, while Robin Yount got his 3000th career hit.
1992 proved to be the end of an era for the Brewers, as teammates Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner, who had been together since 1978 would go their separate ways, as Molitor left the Brewers for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gantner retired, and Yount would only last one more season before retiring in 1993.
Further encouraging this sentiment, the Brewers had hired former stars Yount ( bench coach ; resigned in November 2006 ) and Dale Sveum ( third base coach ), both very popular players for the Brewers in the ' 80s.
*** The Milwaukee Brewers, for Hall of Famer Robin Yount.
Yount finished with a four-hit game, as the Brewers won 10-2.
After splitting time between center field and left field, Yount became the Brewers ' regular center fielder in 1986.
Yount holds Brewers career records for games, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs, total bases, walks and strikeouts.
In keeping with the " Beast Mode " celebration that the Brewers had made during the season, Yount did his own " Beast Mode " after throwing the ball.
In 2012, when Dale Sveum was named the Chicago Cubs new manager, rumors quickly spread that Sveum would ask Yount to coach with him, even though the Brewers and Cubs had become bitter rivals.
* 1982: Robin Yount, Milwaukee Brewers
* The Brewers also have statues of legendary Milwaukee players Robin Yount and Hank Aaron outside the front entrance of Miller Park, as well as also a statue of former team owner and MLB commissioner Bud Selig.
Jenkins is third on the Brewers all-time career home run list trailing only Hall-of-Famer Robin Yount and former first baseman Prince Fielder.
Through 2011, he had the second-highest career slugging percentage (. 540 ) and OPS (. 929 ) of any player in Brewers history, behind Braun, and was second in career home runs ( 230 ) to Robin Yount.
** Robin Yount, Milwaukee Brewers, SS ( AL )
** Robin Yount, Milwaukee Brewers ( AL )
Yount and have
Yount is currently the last 18-year old to hit a home run in the Major Leagues ( Ken Griffey Jr. and Bryce Harper are the two most current teenagers to have hit Major League home runs, but as 19-year olds ).
On a very good team this batter can have characteristics of both a leadoff hitter and a power hitter ( Curt Flood, Joe Morgan, Robin Yount, Alan Trammell ).
Yount and catch
The final out came on a climactic diving catch in right-center field by Robin Yount of a line drive hit by Eddie Murray.
Yount and line
With the title on the line, Yount hit home runs in each of his first two at-bats against Orioles starter Jim Palmer.
Yount and hit
After going hitless in his first four games, Yount hit a game-winning home run in his sixth.
On Sept. 9, 1992, Yount collected his 3, 000th career hit, becoming the 17th player to reach the mark.
Noteworthy, as that was the game in which Robin Yount recorded his 3, 000th career hit, though fellow pitcher Jose Mesa actually gave up the hit earlier in the game.
Yount hit. 331 with 29 home runs and 114 RBI.
Yount and by
However, on September 15, 2008 Sveum, by now the team's manager, chose Yount as his bench coach.
To meet the demands for air service, a ground breaking ceremony was held in 1959 for construction of a new $ 5. 5 million terminal building designed by Yount, Sullivan and Lecklider, which was completed in 1961.
Yount and game
A pitching equivalent to Graham is Larry Yount, who is credited with an official game pitched in the majors despite never throwing a pitch.
Yount and with
GM Harry Dalton was able to build a winning club with a combination of home-grown players like Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Gorman Thomas, as well as getting players that were cast-offs from other teams that became major contributors like Cecil Cooper, Ben Oglivie, and Mike Caldwell.
This is the uniform that Hank Aaron would wear with the club in his final seasons, and that Robin Yount would wear in his first.
Yount developed into an excellent hitter, eventually posting a career. 285 batting average with 251 home runs, 1632 runs scored and 1406 runs batted in.
Yount collected more hits in the decade of the 1980s than any other player ( 1731 ), leading the American League with 210 hits in 1982.
Yount demonstrated his remarkable power, especially unusual in a shortstop, with a. 578 slugging percentage and. 957 OPS on his way to gaining 367 total bases-leading the major leagues in all three categories.
Milwaukee's Miller Park was designed, with the help of former player Robin Yount, to promote extra base hits.
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