From a Wall Street Journal story by Jason Gay headlined “Brooks Robinson and Tim Wakefield: Two Very Different Ballplayers Who Knew What Mattered Most”:

Their careers separated by a baseball generation, they never faced each other on the diamond. But Brooks Robinson and Tim Wakefield, two beloved Major Leaguers lost in the past week, shared a common thread: They left a better game behind.

Baltimore, a playoff city once again, remains in mourning for its Brooks. They held a memorial for him Monday at Camden Yards, a stadium built long after Robinson’s Orioles playing days were complete. Cal Ripken spoke. Eddie Murray spoke. Brooks’s successor, Doug DeCinces. Jim Kaat. Boog Powell.