A wonderful human being, Bill Robinson was passed away. Robinson was Dodgers Minor League Hitting Coordinator.

Gary Carter playfully started calling him Uncle Bill in 1985 and it stuck.

Bill was a real gentleman and a very kind man, the second coach from the 1986 Mets to have passed within the year. Vern Hoscheit also passed on earlier this season.

UPDATE: Marty Noble does a great job remembering Bill. Noble is the deam of Mets beat guys and has been covering the Mets for almost 30 years.

I have to correct something Marty says though. The dry witted Robinson liked to be called the “Hitting Instructor”. According to Robinson batting was a position, while hitting was what you were going to do.

Nice to here HoJo reintroduced Uncle Bill’s low two.

After the 1986 WS win, the Mets brought us all back to NY the day before we went to the White House to meet President Reagan. We went to MSG the night before and a fan outside saw Robinson and asked for a low two. Pleased to no end, the always gracious Robinson complied.