Brown spent the 1946 season serving in the U.S. Army. He returned to the Dodgers in 1947, joining a roster that included ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League Baseball game, died on Wednesday. Brown was 97 years old and died after ...

He returned to the Dodgers in 1947, joining a roster that included future Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese and Robinson, whose debut that season broke baseball’s color barrier. Brown's ...

Former big leaguer Tommy Brown died Wednesday at age 97, according to The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh. “Buckshot” Brown played in 494 games with the Dodgers, Phillies and Cubs from 1944-53, and ...

Born in Brooklyn in 1927, Brown signed with the then-hometown Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. He made his MLB debut at just 16 years old when he started at shortstop at Ebbets Field on Aug. 3, 1944, against ...

Tommy Brown, a former shortstop, left fielder and pinch hitter for three MLB teams from 1944 to '45 and 1947 to '53, died Wednesday, according to a Wednesday afternoon social media post from Ben ...

whose debut that season broke baseball’s color barrier. Advertising Brown’s daughter recalled her father telling her about a petition that circulated among several white players in the Dodgers ...