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Robert William Brown, M.D. (born October 28, 1924 in Seattle, Washington) is a former third baseman and executive in Major League 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. October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
This article is about the city. ...
The position of the third baseman A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in the sport of baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base, the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in a counterclockwise succession in order to score a run. ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...
American League The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 10 - Luis Aparicio, Don Drysdale and Harmon Killebrew are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. ...
The following are the events of the year 1994 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball. ...
The following are the baseball events of the year 1946 throughout the world. ...
The following are the events of the year 1952 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball. ...
The following are the events of the year 1954 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball. ...
Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (26) 2000 • 1999 • 1998 • 1996 1978 • 1977 • 1962 • 1961 1958 • 1956 • 1953 • 1952 1951 • 1950 • 1949 • 1947 1943 • 1941 • 1939 • 1938 1937 • 1936 • 1932 • 1928 1927 • 1923 AL Pennants (39) 2003 • 2001 • 2000...
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 recieved a Silver Lifesaving Medal. The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a privately-funded American university in Stanford, California. ...
The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...
Tulane University Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Silver and Gold Lifesaving Medal The Lifesaving Medal is a military decoration of the United States Coast Guard which was first created in June of 1874. ...
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 1 1/2 seasons due to military service during the Korean War. Batting average is a statistic in both baseball and cricket measuring the performance of baseball hitters and cricket batsmen, respectively. ...
For other uses of the phrase see Home run (disambiguation) In baseball, a home run is a base hit in which the batter is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring a run himself (along with a run for each runner who was already on...
The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, the culmination of the sports postseason each October. ...
The 1947 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning the Series in 7 games for their first title since 1943, and the 11th championship in team history. ...
The 1949 World Series featured the New York Yankees. ...
The 1950 World Series matched the defending champion New York Yankees against the Philadelphia Phillies. ...
The 1951 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the New York Giants, who had won the National League pennant in a thrilling three-game playoff with the Brooklyn Dodgers on a legendary home run by Bobby Thomson. ...
The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to cease-fire on July 27, 1953 (the war has not ended officially), was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. ...
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?" The position of the catcher Catcher is also a general term for a fielder who catches the ball in cricket. ...
Yogi Berra on his 80th birthday Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees. ...
Henry Grays Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Grays Anatomy, is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. ...
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 1998 and their functions were absorbed into the office of the Commissioner of Baseball. Cardiology is the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. ...
The Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex encompasses the metropolitan divisions of Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington, within the U.S. state of Texas. ...
The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...
Major league affiliations American League (1961-present) West Division (1972-present) East Division (1969-1971) Major league titles World Series titles (0) None AL Pennants (0) None West Division titles (3) [1] 1999 • 1998 • 1996 Wild card berths (0) None [1] - In 1994, a players strike wiped out the last...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 10 - Luis Aparicio, Don Drysdale and Harmon Killebrew are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. ...
Leland Stanford MacPhail, Jr. ...
Gene Budig was the president of Major League Baseballs American League from 1994- 1999. ...
The 1992 World Series was the first Series ever played outside of the United States of America. ...
The 1993 World Series was the second Series in a row played outside the United States of America. ...
The 2004 World Series Trophy The World Series Trophy is awarded each year by Major League Baseball to the team winning the World Series. ...
Major league affiliations American League (1977-present) East Division (1977-present) Major league titles World Series titles (2) 1992 • 1993 AL Pennants (2) 1992 • 1993 East Division titles (5) 1985 • 1989 • 1991 • 1992 1993 Wild card berths (0) None Major league nicknames Toronto Blue Jays (1977-present) Major league home...
This article refers to the American baseball league. ...
This year in baseball 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Events January-March January 5 - Don Sutton, a 324-game winner is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his fifth try. ...
In 1920 the owners of Major League Baseball, in order to reestablish confidence of fans in the sport following the Black Sox Scandal, established the office of Commissioner of Baseball. ...
External link
- Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis
- The Crash of a Kingfisher off San Gregorio - Rescue By Bobby Brown
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