Jimmy Brown (baseball)

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Jimmy Brown
Runs batted in
319
Teams
Career highlights and awards

James Roberson Brown (April 25, 1910 – December 29, 1977) was a Major League Baseball infielder and coach.

Early life

Born in

right-handed
; he was listed as 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg).

Career

Brown in 1941

He signed with the

at-bats with 645, but finishing 6th in MVP voting.[2] He began being known as a reliable leadoff hitter and as an infielder that the Cardinals could put anywhere, having played 1936 primarily as a second baseman, 1939 as a shortstop, and 1941 as a third baseman.[2]

After a decent season in 1940, he came back with another great year in 1941, tying a career high in triples with 9, earning a career high batting average with .306, and finishing 4th in MVP voting.[2] This, however, was still not enough to earn an all-star appearance. In 1942 he managed to earn his lone all-star appearance and finish 13th in MVP voting.[2] Despite this and leading the league in at-bats with 606, his batting average dipped to .256, a career low.[2] Despite this, during the 1942 World Series, he led all Cardinals' hitters in batting average with .300 en route to their World Series victory.[3]

Brown enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces after playing 34 games during the 1943 season.[4] When World War II ended, his contract was sold for $30,000 on January 5, 1946, to the Pittsburgh Pirates; he played the 1946 season as a utility infielder before being released by the Pirates on November 15.[5]

In 890 games over eight seasons, Brown posted a .279

bases on balls. He finished his career with a .959 fielding percentage playing at second and third base and shortstop. In the 1942 World Series, he hit .300 (6-for-20) with 2 runs, 1 RBI and 3 walks.[2]

Upon retirement, he became a manager in the Pittsburgh

Boston Braves, working for three seasons (1949–51) under his old Cardinal skipper, Billy Southworth
.

Later life

After leaving Boston in 1952, he was a manager for minor league teams in the farm systems of the Cardinals, Braves and Cincinnati Reds. He died December 29, 1977, in Bath, North Carolina.

References

  1. ^ "North Carolina State University Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues". Baseball-Almanac.com. Archived from the original on 23 November 2005. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Jimmy Brown Statistics – Baseball-Reference.com". Retrieved 2007-05-06.
  3. ^ "Jimmy Brown – baseballbiography.com". Retrieved 2007-05-06.
  4. ^ "Those Who Served". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
  5. ^ "Jimmy Brown Baseball Statistics". Archived from the original on 2007-02-08. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
  6. ^ "History of New Orleans Baseball". Retrieved 2007-05-08.

External links

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