Earl Robinson

Career: Played in the big leagues with the Dodgers in 1958 and the Orioles in 1961, 1962 and 1964.

Did you know? A two-sport star at the University of California, who earned All-America honors and won a national championship as a shortstop in 1957, and was an All-Pacific Coast Conference selection from 1956 to '58 in basketball ... signed by the Dodgers in 1958 for $75,000, a record sum for an African-American prospect at the time ... made big league debut with Dodgers in 1958, the team's first season in Los Angeles, and was sold to the Orioles during the winter of 1960 for an amount variously estimated between $50,000 and $75,000.

Post-game: Served as an assistant basketball coach at the University of California, the head basketball coach for a couple of Oakland junior colleges, director of special projects for the Oakland A's, and taught English at an Oakland high school and speech and communication at the junior college level ... was inducted in the Cal HOF in 1988, the Pac-10 Conference Hall of Honor in 2010, and won the Pete Newell Career Achievement Award in 2011 ... died on July 4, 2014 at age 77. 

Sources: Baseball Reference; Boston Globe, 12/14/1960; Baltimore Sun, 12/17/1960; Long Beach Pasadena Independent, 12/20/1960;  State Journal-Register, 7/15/2014; Mercury News, 7/5/2014; East Bay Times, 7/6/2014.