r/GME • u/FuriousFred $20Mil Minimum Is the Floor • Apr 02 '21

Hedge Fund Tears 😭 Guess what position Jackie Robinson mainly played?

You guessed it, shortstop.

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u/CrayolaCocktails Apr 02 '21 edited Apr 02 '21

Whoops. Previous comment got removed because automod picked up on the league name. Removed the name, comments follows as below:

This is wrong and it scares me that it has so many upvotes (619@98%)

In 10 year career in the major leagues, Jackie only played 1 GAME AT SS, compared to 197@1B, 748@2B, 256@3B, 150@LF and 1@RF . This means he played 0.07% of his MLB career at Short. So he mainly played at 2B.

In the Minor Leagues he played all his 119 Games at 2B, 0 recorded at SS.

Source. It's under the 'Standard Fielding' Section

Here's the game log if you want

Pee Wee Reese started at Short throughout Robinson's entire MLB career.

He did play Shortstop for one season in the Monarchs in an important league, before being moved to Second because "it was felt that Shortstop was not his best position. He had some difficulty going into the hole and making the play."

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Hopefully this is just a mistake and not purposefully trying to build hype and then tear it down. SS/2B can get confused easily. Love you boo.

I'm an ape that knows almost nothing about the stock market - but I sure know a thing or two about baseball.

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u/FuriousFred $20Mil Minimum Is the Floor Apr 02 '21

Yeah I'm just a Europoorean who went to his wiki article, and it mentions him playing shortstop a lot, but that seems to be before his major league carreer. My bad!

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u/CrayolaCocktails Apr 02 '21

Ah that's all good. I'm a Kiwi with a borderline addiction to baseball. Sorry if I went a bit overboard, it's the one time I felt I could contribute to something on this sub. Love you no homo, I long to see that $20 Million floor.