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Frank Robinson, the first black manager in baseball history and one of the game's greatest ambassadors, has passed away at age 83 from bone cancer.
Robinson spent the last two and a half years of his playing career in Cleveland where he hit .226, but made his greatest impact as a manager for the ballclub.
Robinson managed the Tribe, originally as a player-manger, from 1975-1977 before also making stops in San Francisco, Baltimore, Montreal, and Washington. Robinson won 2 MVPs and clubbed 586 home runs in his playing career, with a career high of 49 in 1966.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first ballot in 1982, along with being inducted into the Indians HOF and having his #20 retired by the Indians in 2017.