Bobby Brown | |||
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Third baseman | |||
Born: Seattle, Washington |
October 25, 1924 |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 22, 1946, for the New York Yankees | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
June 30, 1954, for the New York Yankees | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .279 | ||
Home runs | 22 | ||
Runs batted in | 237 | ||
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Robert William Brown (born October 25, 1924) 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 studied for his medical degree during his eight-year (1946-52, 1954) career as a player with the New York Yankees.
Brown, born in Seattle, Washington, attended Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco, then 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.
Sometimes known as "Golden Boy" during his baseball career, 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. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He missed 1½ seasons due to military service during the Korean War.