Robin Roberts--What's My Line

[JR1960actor]

'In our abundant economy', John Daly says. How times have changed.

[observer9670]

Robin Roberts was also one of the founding members of the Major League Baseball Players Association. There had been a ineffectual players' association but Roberts and a few other players led an effort to hire an executive director (Marvin Miller) and actually negotiate with owners on behalf of the players.

[SOLE2SOUL]

Arlene's hair looks darker than Dorothy's hair on this one.

[carlmoore19]

And in addition to the panel trying to find his off-season line, he is NOT on here as a mystery guest. His baseball line was already known to the panel.

[BenJabituya]

RIP Robin Roberts.

[AshburnStadium]

@BenJabituya - #36 has joined his teammate, Rich "Whitey" Ashburn in heaven. I bet the two of them are having a grand old time up there along with Harry Kalas!

[CarlDuke]

@AshburnStadium Since you are apparently a great Phillies fan, can you tell who the Pope is? Also I have some great stories about Harry, Robin and Whitey on my MLB blog. If you would like to see them just google NOTES FROM HISTORY AND TODAY.

[AshburnStadium]

@CarlDuke - Paul Owens was known as "the Pope". He got a chance just before his death to appear at the closing ceremonies at Veterans Stadium on September 28, 2003 as did Tug McGraw.

I was there that day in Section 330, Row 13, Seat 15 as a guest of the Phillies, thanks to Larry Shenk, who I would like to thank publicly. He hooked me up with a ticket to the 3 final games there because he had heard of my Ashburn Stadium banner, which racked up a 9-2 record when I flew it in 2003.

[mkl62]

9-30-2009. Full of glee at 83. Happy Birthday, Robin. I know that getting inducted into Cooperstown was an honor.

[proken58]

This reminds me of the time Steve Allen appeared as a non-mystery guest. His line was the owner of a motorcycle dealership.

[perlster]

Tut tut - John Daly missed a "no" on "expensive".

[soulierinvestments]

Somebody should create a Wikipedia entry entitled "the non-sport business interests of great baseball players." For example, when Phil Razutto appeared in Feb 1950 as WML's first mystery guest, John Daly illicited from Phil in the post-game interview that Phil {worked in?}{owned?} a New Jersey men's clothing store in the off season.

As to the modern baseball players: someone should do a Wikipedia entry entitled Businessmen who also happened to play professional baseball on their days off.