Chris Brown (baseball)
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Brown batting for the Giants in 1985
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| Third baseman | |||
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Born: August 15, 1961 Jackson, Mississippi |
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Died: December 26, 2006 (aged 45) Houston, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 3, 1984, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| May 16, 1989, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .269 | ||
| Home runs | 38 | ||
| Runs batted in | 184 | ||
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John Christopher Brown (August 15, 1961 – December 26, 2006) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball during the 1980s, most notably with the San Francisco Giants.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Brown was a notable graduate of Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, California, where he played high school baseball with Darryl Strawberry. The 1979 Crenshaw High Cougars baseball team was the subject of Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw.
Brown was selected by the Giants in the second round (44th overall) during the 1979 amateur draft.
After a steady climb through the Giants minor league system, Brown made his major league debut for them in 1984 as a September call-up. In his first full season in 1985, Brown batted .261 with 16 home runs and 61 runs batted in (RBIs) for the last-place Giants, made the All-Rookie team, and finished fourth in the National League Rookie of the Year voting; Brown also led the NL in times being hit by pitch (11). In 1986, Brown batted .317 and made the NL All-Star team after hitting nearly .350 in the season's first half. The same season, he was involved in an infamous brawl.
At the end of 1986 he complained of shoulder soreness. That offseason, an examination by Dr. Frank Jobe in Los Angeles discovered that there was indeed a serious problem, and surgery was performed that winter. The following season, with Brown hitting a paltry .242 after 38 games, the Giants sent him packing on July 5 along with , Mark Davis, and Mark Grant in a midseason trade to the San Diego Padres in exchange for Kevin Mitchell, Dave Dravecky, and Craig Lefferts.
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