On this day in 1971, the late Frank Robinson hit # 500.
Robinson retired in 1976 as a player-manager with Cleveland. His numbers put him in the Hall of Fame in 1982: .294 batting average, 2,943 hits, 1,812 RBI and 586 HRs.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan