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Byron Browne

Byron Browne
Outfielder
Born: (1942-12-27) December 27, 1942 (age 74)
Saint Joseph, Missouri
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 9, 1965, for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
June 18, 1972, for the Philadelphia Phillies
MLB statistics
Fielding percentage .973
Putouts 429
Batting average .236
Teams

Byron Ellis Browne (born December 27, 1942) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.

He played with the Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies between 1965 and 1972.

Browne was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent on September 9, 1962 then was drafted by the Cubs from the Pirates in the 1963 first-year draft.

In his first Major League Baseball at-bat on September 9, 1965, Browne lined out in the second inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game. He played in parts of three seasons with the Cubs, hitting .236 with 16 home runs in 134 games. He also led the league in strikeouts in 1966 with 143.

Browne was traded by the Cubs to the Astros on May 4, 1968 in return for Aaron Pointer but only played in 10 games with the Astros, totaling three hits in 19 at-bats.

The Cardinals purchased him from the Astros on February 12, 1969 where he appeared in 22 games while hitting .226 spending most of the season in AAA with the Tulsa Oilers.

Browne, along with Curt Flood, Tim McCarver and Joe Hoerner, was traded to the Phillies for Richie Allen, Cookie Rojas, and Jerry Johnson on October 7, 1969.

Challenging Major League Baseball's reserve clause, Flood's refused the trade and his subsequent lawsuit against Major League Baseball went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court which in 1972 ruled against Flood. By 1975, however, arbitration effectively reversed the Court's verdict, voiding the clause, which led to today's free agency system among major league professional athletes.


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