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A 5'7" football player signed by the baseball Browns out of St. Louis University, Robertson topped all ML third basemen in 1924 with a .315 batting average. (NLM)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » June 11th, 1922: Insisting on another start, Urban Shocker is again beaten by the Yankees, 8–4. New York scores three in the seventh on a walk, three hits, and a Williams throwing error. Gene Robertson, a subs adds the game's topper in the seventh when he lifts a high fly behind the Browns' dugout and the ball strikes owner Phil Ball on the cheek giving him a mild concussion and requiring four stitches. Following the game, Shocker will miss three weeks in June and July because of an injury, but still rack up 348 innings, second in the AL.