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Bobby Brown (baseball 1946)

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Full Name: Robert William Brown Primary Position: 3B
Height/Weight: 6' 1"/180 First Game: September 22, 1946
Birthdate: October 25, 1924 Final Game: June 30, 1954
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington MLB Experience: 8 years
Bat/Throw: Left/Right
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  • 1 Biography
  • 2 External link
  • 3 Statistics
    • 3.1 Batting Stats
    • 3.2 Fielding Stats
  • 4 Transactions
  • 5 Trivia
  • 6 Video Gallery
  • 7 Picture Gallery
  • 8 See Also
  • 9 Categories

[edit] Biography

Dr. Robert William Brown, M.D. (born October 25 1924 in Seattle, Washington) is a former third baseman and executive in professional baseball who served as president of the American League from 1984 to 1994. He also was a physician who successfully studied for his medical degree during his eight-year (1946-52, 1954) career as a player with the New York Yankees.

Brown - also nicknamed "The Golden Boy" during his playing career - attended Stanford University and UCLA before receiving his medical degree from Tulane University. During his time at Stanford, he and another student were involved in the rescue of a Coast Guardsman from a plane crash, for which he received a Silver Lifesaving Medal.

Concurrently, he played 548 regular-season games for the Yankees, with a lifetime batting average of .279 with 22 home runs. In addition, he appeared in four World Series (1947, 1949, 1950, 1951) for New York, batting .439 in 17 games - while participating in four world championships. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He missed 1½ seasons due to military service during the Korean War.

A famous, perhaps apocryphal, story that has made the rounds for years in baseball circles concerns the time when Brown's road roommate was star Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, who had little formal education. The two were reading in their hotel room one night - Berra a comic book and Brown his copy of Gray's Anatomy. Berra came to the end of his comic, tossed it aside, and asked Brown, "So, how is yours turning out?"

Brown practiced cardiology in the Dallas-Fort Worth area until the early 1980s, when he returned to baseball as a vice president of the AL Texas Rangers. In 1984, he succeeded Lee MacPhail as AL president and held the post for a decade; Gene Budig replaced him. In 1992 and 1993, Brown presented the World Series Trophy (on both occasions to the Toronto Blue Jays) instead of the Commissioner of Baseball. The presidencies of the American League and the National League were abolished in 2000 and their functions were absorbed into the office of the Commissioner of Baseball.

There is some disagreement on what was Bobby Brown's most productive season. Some believe that it was 1948, when he hit for a .300 average. However, others believe that it was 1949, when he hit for a .283 average and knocked in 61 runs.

[edit] External link

  • Baseball Almanac bio on Bobby Brown
  • The Crash of a Kingfisher off San Gregorio - Rescue By Bobby Brown

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Batting Stats

Year Team G AB R H HR RBI AVG OBP SLG 2B 3B BB SO HBP SH SB IBB GDP
1946 NY A 7 24 1 8 0 1 .333 .429 .375 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 2
1947 NY A 69 150 21 45 1 18 .300 .390 .373 6 1 21 9 1 3 0 0 4
1948 NY A 113 363 62 109 3 48 .300 .383 .405 19 5 48 16 1 4 0 0 7
1949 NY A 104 343 61 97 6 61 .283 .359 .399 14 4 38 18 3 0 4 0 9
1950 NY A 95 277 33 74 4 37 .267 .360 .339 4 2 39 18 1 3 3 0 12
1951 NY A 103 313 44 84 6 51 .268 .369 .387 15 2 47 18 3 6 1 0 4
1952 NY A 29 89 6 22 1 14 .247 .323 .303 2 0 9 6 1 1 1 0 2
1954 NY A 28 60 5 13 1 7 .217 .304 .283 1 0 8 3 0 0 0 0 3
Total 548 1619 233 452 22 237 .279 .367 .376 62 14 214 88 10 18 9 0 43

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year Team POS G GS INN PO A ERR DP TP PB SB CS PkO AVG
1946 NY A SS 5 0 0 8 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1946 NY A 3B 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1947 NY A SS 11 0 0 13 20 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 .917
1947 NY A OF 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1947 NY A 3B 27 0 0 21 34 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 .932
1948 NY A SS 26 0 0 40 68 8 20 0 0 0 0 0 .931
1948 NY A 2B 17 0 0 42 43 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 .955
1948 NY A 3B 41 0 0 43 62 6 7 0 0 0 0 0 .946
1948 NY A OF 4 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1949 NY A 3B 86 0 0 84 158 13 17 0 0 0 0 0 .949
1949 NY A OF 3 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
1950 NY A 3B 82 0 0 63 140 9 13 0 0 0 0 0 .958
1951 NY A 3B 90 0 0 80 151 11 14 0 0 0 0 0 .955
1952 NY A 3B 24 0 0 23 61 10 4 0 0 0 0 0 .894
1954 NY A 3B 17 0 0 15 31 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Total 2B 17 0 0 42 43 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 .955
Total SS 42 0 0 61 97 11 26 0 0 0 0 0 .935
Total 3B 369 0 0 330 640 53 60 0 0 0 0 0 .948
Total OF 10 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000

[edit] Transactions

  • Signed as an amateur free agent by New York Yankees (1946).

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