Sherry Robertson

Sherrard Alexander Robertson (January 1, 1919 - October 23, 1970) was a Canadian-American outfielder, second baseman and front office executive in Major League Baseball.

The nephew of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, manager and club owner Clark Griffith, Robertson was part of an extended family that operated the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League for almost 65 years. Robertson's brother Calvin was adopted by Clark Griffith, took his uncle's last name and succeeded him as the president and majority owner of the Senators (1955-60). He moved the club to Minneapolis-St. Paul after the 1960 season, then led the Minnesota Twins until he sold them in 1984. Sherry Robertson was the longtime director of the team's farm system, and two other brothers, Jimmy and Billy, were also club executives. In addition, brother-in-law Joe Haynes was an executive vice president of the Senators and Twins, another brother-in-law, Joe Cronin, was a Hall of Fame shortstop and president of the American League from 1959-73, and several nephews took active roles in managing the Twins' affairs.

Sherry Robertson, a native of Montreal, Quebec, moved to the Washington, D.C., area with his widowed mother and siblings when he was a child. He attended the University of Maryland. A left-handed batter who threw right-handed, Robertson (whose father was a minor league player) saw MLB service with the Senators (1940-41, 1943 and 1946-52) and Philadelphia Athletics (1952). In ten seasons he played in 597 games and had 1,507 at bats, scored 200 runs, and compiled 346 hits, 55 doubles, 18 triples, 26 home runs, 151 runs batted in, 32 stolen bases, 202 walks, with a .230 batting average, .323 on-base percentage, .342 slugging percentage, 515 total bases and 14 sacrifice hits.

Robertson returned to uniform as a bench coach with the Twins in 1970. After that season, he died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Houghton, South Dakota, at the age of 51. He was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007.

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