He was offered a football scholarship to the University of Arizona as a quarterback, but chose to sign a professional baseball contract.

Robinson made his major league debut at age 24 on August 10, 1960 in a 6-0 White Sox home loss to the New York Yankees, starting in right field and going 0-for-3 against Art Ditmar.

[3] Robinson was managed by Hall of Famer Al López, a man he respected a great deal, for most of his seven-year White Sox career.

On July 22, 1962, Robinson became part of baseball history with six hits (all singles) in six at-bats in a nine-inning game.

[5] In 1964, Robinson came closer to reaching the World Series than he ever would when the White Sox went 98–64, one game behind the 99-63 New York Yankees.

[6] After baseball, Robinson and his wife Sandra, whom he married in 1965, were also business partners, investing in multiple real estate and apartment buildings and a small grocery store that has since closed.

One such building is the Golden Age Garden, a low-income senior citizen apartment complex in the Mountain View neighborhood of San Diego, where Robinson was raised.