• Among Robinson’s teammates on the 2002 Greensboro Bats was outfielder Yehncy Brazoban. The Yankees would move the hard-throwing, light-hitting Brazoban to the pitching mound in 2003. In 2005, he saved 21 games for the Dodgers.
• Robinson played in the 2004 Futures Game. He went 0-for-2.
• In 2005, Robinson led all A.L. rookies with 47 multi-hit games and 239 total bases.
• Robinson hit in 20 straight road games as a rookie in 2005. It was the longest road hitting streak among major leaguers that year.
• Robinson finished behind Huston Street in the 2005 Rookie of the Year voting.
• In 2006, Robinson led the A.L. with a .364 road average and a .363 average against right-handed pitching.
• Robinson hit .398 in the #7 slot in 2006.
• After coming off the DL in August of 2006, Robinson led the majors with 51 RBIs.
• Robinson was the Player of the Month for September 2006.
• Robinson changed his number from 22 to 24 in 2007. He did so to tempt Roger Clemens back to New York, but also to honor Jackie Robinson, who wore number 42. Currently, Mariano Rivera is the only major leaguer allowed to wear 42.
• On Jackie Robinson Day in 2007, Robinson got to wear #42 in a game.
• Robinson had six straight multi-hit games coming out of the 2008 All-Star break.
• Robinson had the last RBI in the old Yankee Stadium. He also had the last walk-off hit, a single to beat the Baltimore Orioles 1–0 on September 20, 2008.
• Robinson tied for first in the AL with 161 games played in 2009. He finished in the Top 10 in batting, hits, runs, doubles and extra-base hits.
• Robinson is the 19th player to form a DP combo with Derek Jeter.
• After his rookie year, the Yankees denied Robinson’s request to play winter ball. He reported to camp a few pounds overweight in 2006, so the team let him play in the Dominican League prior to the 2007 season.
• Robinson sent the ball from his first big-league hit home to his mother, who placed in on his trophy shelf.
• Lefthanded-hitting second basemen are a relative rarity in the majors. Robinson already has played more games at second for New York than any other lefty.
• Robinson admits that he is paranoid about slumps. No matter how well he does in one game, he is always worried about not getting a hit in the next.
• In 2005, Robinson was given the key to the city of Newark by mayor Sharpe James. He lived in Newark for three years as a boy.
• Robinson was a character in the children’s book Boy of Steel written by Yankee special assistant Ray Negron.

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