[Mick]

When he was a manager, the team was at a flying exhibition during spring training in Daytona Beach in 1915. The pilot of the plane was Ruth Law (pictured below), a woman and a daredevil pilot, which was unusual at that time. Casey Stengel and Robinson hatched the plan that she would drop a baseball from altitude so that Robinson could catch it. She realized that she'd forgotten a baseball, so she looked around the cockpit for a baseball-like object, saw a grapefruit and tossed it overboard from about 525 feet up. A grapefruit is much heavier than a baseball, and the pink grapefruit exploded when it hit Robinson's mitt. Robinson thought he was gravely injured, and yelled "Help! I'm dying! I'm bleeding to death!" -- covered, as he was, in pink fruit, which he mistook for parts of himself.

Hilarity ensued. All the players loved it, and "Grapefruit" was born. Supposedly, that's how the "Grapefruit" league got its name.

[Mick]

When he was a manager, the team was at a flying exhibition during spring training in Daytona Beach in 1915. The pilot of the plane was Ruth Law (pictured below), a woman and a daredevil pilot, which was unusual at that time. Casey Stengel and Robinson hatched the plan that she would drop a baseball from altitude so that Robinson could catch it. She realized that she'd forgotten a baseball, so she looked around the cockpit for a baseball-like object, saw a grapefruit and tossed it overboard from about 525 feet up. A grapefruit is much heavier than a baseball, and the pink grapefruit exploded when it hit Robinson's mitt. Robinson thought he was gravely injured, and yelled "Help! I'm dying! I'm bleeding to death!" -- covered, as he was, in pink fruit, which he mistook for parts of himself.

Hilarity ensued. All the players loved it, and "Grapefruit" was born. Supposedly, that's how the "Grapefruit" league got its name.