Dante Robinson (born March 3, nicknamed "Stretch" or "D-Lish") is best known for being a big eater.
Appearance
1997-2001
Dante is a short African-American boy with an Afro. Originally, Dante wore a yellow shirt and orange pants.
2002-2006
He wears a white shirt, a tan vest, and a backwards blue visor.
2015
He wears a purple shirt with a slice of pizza on it, and green shorts.
Personality
In the games, Dante is shown as always eating and thinking about food all the time.
In books such as Tricked Out, his personality is expanded to beyond just food. Dante is shown to be a talented skateboarder along with his friend, Reese. He does shows less confident in his abilities until Reese encourages him to sign up for the skate tournament.
Dante can be shown to have a slow temper compared to his friend, Reese. He was patient to helping Reese practice for the tournament until Reese started to annoy him with his competitive obsession. Despite their fight, he still cares for Reese and values their friendship.
Player Cards
Dante Robinson Theme Song
Dante's theme from the original Backyard Baseball
Dante's overall skill makes him a great choice for any position. All he asks in return is an endless supply of candy and hamburgers.
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Dante Robinson is an eating machine. When he's not stuffing his face, he's one of the best all-around players in the league. With his blazing speed and incredibly accurate throws, Dante's got the skills to pay the bills - the grocery bills, that is.
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
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Dante could eat all day long. If you give him enough orange slices, he'll play all day long, and pretty well, in fact.
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Dante's not a big kid, but he eats like one. He also plays like one. Put the ball in his hands, and he'll chew up big yardage for your team.
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Dante is an eating machine. With blinding speed and a cannon for an arm, Dante can also eat up some serious yardage for his team.
Throws: Left
Skill Ratings
| Passing | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Catching | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Running | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Blocking/Tackling | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
| Kicking | 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 |
Portrait
Action shot
Dante 'Stretch' Robinson is proof that you don't have to be tall to be a great basketball player. One of the quickest players in sneakers, Dante is as good as any point guard in the league.
Shoots: Left
Skill Ratings
| Inside Shooting | 🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Outside Shooting | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Ball-handing | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Defense | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
| Quickness | 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 |
Dante may be a little guy, but he can skate circles around most bigger kids. He likes hockey because there's two big breaks for him to run to the concession stand between periods.
Shoots: Left
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Dante Robinson is an eating machine. When he's not stuffing his face, he's one of the best all-around players in the league. With his blazing speed and incredibly accurate throws, Dante's got the skills to pay the bills - the grocery bills, that is.
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Music
Gallery
Trivia
- Dante has his own sandwich, called the Dante sandwich. On it is peanut butter, jelly, potato chips, pickles, bananas, whipped cream and a couple of hot dogs on raisin bread.
- In the original Backyard Baseball, Dante's swinging has the longest delay (his bunt is normal, though). Baseball 2001 fixed this.
- Dante returned for the new Backyard Sports app, Backyard Sports Baseball 2015.
- According to 2004, Luanne, Vicki and Pablo are the only kids he's older than. According to the size chart, Although Ronny is 5 years old and Luanne is 4. He's probably a little older than Luanne and a little younger than Ronny.