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===Career statistics=== During a 21-year baseball career, he [[batting average (baseball)|batted]] .294 with 586 [[home run]]s, 1,812 [[run batted in|runs batted in]], and 2,943 [[Hit (baseball)|hits]].<ref name="bbref"/> At his retirement, his 586 career home runs were the fourth most in history (behind only the records of [[Hank Aaron]], [[Babe Ruth]] and [[Willie Mays]]). He is third on Cincinnati's all-time home run leaders list (324, behind [[Johnny Bench]] and [[Joey Votto]]) and is the Reds' all-time leader in slugging percentage (.554).<ref>{{Cite web |title=All-Time Reds Player Hitting Stat Leaders |url=https://www.mlb.com/reds/stats/all-time-totals |access-date=September 6, 2024 |website=[[Cincinnati Reds]] |publisher=[[MLB.com]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=All-Time Reds Player Hitting Stat Leaders |url=https://www.mlb.com/reds/stats/slugging-percentage/all-time-totals |access-date=September 6, 2024 |website=[[Cincinnati Reds]] |publisher=[[MLB.com]] |language=en}}</ref> In his career, Robinson held several major league records. In his rookie season, he tied [[Wally Berger]]'s record for home runs by a rookie (38).<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |last=Acocella |first=Nick |title=Robinson set records and broke barriers |url=https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/robinson_frank.html |access-date=February 7, 2019 |website=[[ESPN Classic]]}}</ref> (The current record would be set by [[Pete Alonso]] in 2019.) Robinson still holds the record for home runs on [[Opening Day]] (8), which includes a home run in his first at bat as a player-manager.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=1531731&type=page2Story |title=Most memorable opening day moments |work=[[ESPN]] |date=March 31, 2003 |access-date=February 7, 2019}}</ref> Robinson won the 1966 American League [[Triple Crown (baseball)|Triple Crown]] (.316 batting average, 49 home runs, 122 RBI). Only two players ([[Carl Yastrzemski]] and [[Miguel Cabrera]]) have since won the award in either league and the two [[MLB Most Valuable Player Award|MVP awards]], which made him the first player in baseball history to earn the title in both leagues.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheinin |first=Dave |date=November 15, 2012 |title=Tigers' Miguel Cabrera wins AL MVP over Angels' Mike Trout |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/tigers-miguel-cabrera-wins-al-mvp-over-angels-mike-trout/2012/11/15/51cdbcda-2f5e-11e2-af17-67abba0676e2_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;" ! Category!! G !! BA !! AB !! R !! H !! 2B !! 3B !! HR !! RBI !! SB !! CS !! BB !! SO !! OBP !! SLG !! OPS !! PO !! A !! DP !! E !! FLD% !! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |- | Total || 2,808 || .294 || 10,006 || 1,829 || 2,943 || 528 || 72 || 586 || 1,812 || 204 || 77 || 1,420 || 1,532 || .389 || .537 || .926 || 6,346 || 333 || 263 || 106 || .984 || <ref name="bbref"/> |}
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