Frank Robinson fought back. Against a white player. A star white player, too, the Braves’ Eddie Mathews. Robinson lost the fight but won the war. “I had a homer and a double, drove in one run ...

Frank Robinson fought back. Against a white player. A star white player, too, the Braves' Eddie Mathews. Robinson lost the fight but won the war. "I had a homer and a double, drove in one run ...

Today: Eddie Mathews ... chores to do,” Mathews said. Mathews, who played at 6 feet 1, 200 pounds, was involved in several brawls and scraps, most notably one with Frank Robinson in the first ...

Eddie Mathews, the homer-slamming ... If the situation cried out for a fight, he was ready. One night in Cincinnati, Frank Robinson, now the director of discipline in Commissioner Bud Selig ...

Frank Robinson died Thursday in Southern California ... Oh, there was violence when Robby slid hard into Milwaukee third baseman Eddie Mathews and Mathews cleaned his clock.

Columnist Gregg Hoffmann pays a final tribute to his boyhood hero, Braves slugger Eddie Mathews ... fighting with Frank Robinson or another opponent, I loved everything he did. Mathews was ...

On Jan. 16, 1974, Mathews got word that he had not ... In his career, he had epic fights with Frank Robinson and Don Drysdale (“Eddie almost demolished him,” Henry Aaron remembered) and ...

Frank Robinson fought back. Against a white player. A star white player, too — the Braves’ Eddie Mathews. Robinson lost the fight but won the war. “I had a homer and a double, drove in one ...