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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Chris Brown, an All-Star third baseman who played six seasons in the majors in the 1980s, died Tuesday, nearly a month after he was burned in a fire at his home outside Houston. He was 45.
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An autopsy has been performed but the cause of death is still pending, said Beverly Begay, a spokeswoman for the Harris County medical examiner’s office.
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Brown, who played with Darryl Strawberry at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, debuted in the majors in 1984 and made the All-Rookie team in 1985 after batting .271 with 16 home runs and 61 RBIs. Brown made the NL All-Star team in 1986, when he hit .317 with seven homers and 49 RBIs for San Francisco.
He underwent shoulder surgery after the ‘86 season and his statistics tapered off. He hit .242 in the first half of the 1987 season and the Giants traded him to the Padres. He batted .235 with only two homers in 1988 and the Padres dealt him to Detroit. He appeared in only 17 games with the Tigers in 1989 and batted .193 before he was released.
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1. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: December 27, 2006 at 10:43 PM (#2269594)He was part of the big Fourth of July (eve) trade in '87 that brought Dave Dravecky, Craig Lefferts and Kevin Mitchell to the Giants, who rallied to win the NL West.
When last in the public eye, he was driving a truck for one of the rebuilding contractors in Iraq.
The Ticket Out does a great job of explaining how the good ol' boy institution of professional baseball didn't do the inner-city African-Americans of non-superstar quality like Brown any favors.
*ducks*
In all seriousness, though, when the Indians were completely hopeless in the 80s, the Giants were my second favorite team. I loved watching Will Clark and Robby Thompson, Mike Krukow and Atlee Hammaker...and Chris Brown. Man, I thought that Clark-Thompson-Uribe-Brown infield was really going to be special.
Now two of them are gone.
Rest in peace, Chris Brown.
That trade included a future MVP for a future Cy Young winner. I wonder how often that has happened.
That trade included a future MVP for a future Cy Young winner. I wonder how often that has happened.
Jeff Kent for David Cone comes to mind.
Also, maybe someday, Bartolo Colon and Grady Sizemore...
I reviewed that book when it came out. A good book, though I didn't enjoy it as much as Sokolove's Pete Rose bio. And there's another whatever-happened-to book I prefer, titled "Destiny's Darlings," about the 1954 Little League world champions from Schnectady.
RIP, Chris Brown.
2. Andrew, "Destiny's Darlings" is one of the best books I ever read. It was even more vivid to me because Schenectady is only 20 miles away, and the coach, Mike Maietta, played semi-pro for my Grandfather. If any Primate runs across this book, read it. You'll be happy you did.
I'd be surprised, never heard anything about that. It happened when Coleman was a Met, Davis never played for the Mets.
We're talking about Mike Davis? I remember the firecracker incident happened in LA, and Davis was a Dodger around then, so could be--I have no idea.
Davis, for his part now, is big figure in South L.A. with youth baseball. He seemed to come out of his cancer scare in better shape psychologically than Strawberry.
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As I recall, Brown was Sparky's pet project in the spring of 1989. I can't remember the whole story, but it was something like one of Sparky's relatives was one of Brown's teachers in high school. Of course, Sparky wasn't the first person enamored of Brown's considerable skills... but then Brown showed up to camp overweight, the Tigers got off to a terrible start, Sparky left the team because of exhaustion, and Brown was released after Sparky left.
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