Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, has died.
He was 97.Brown died Wednesday at a rehabilitation center in Altamonte Springs, Florida , his oldest daughter, Paula Brown Caplice, said Thursday. He had broken his hip and arm in a fall.'He had a nice life and he loved his sports,' she told The Associated Press by phone.Born Thomas Michael Brown on Dec. 6, 1927, in Brooklyn, he signed with his hometown Dodgers after a 1943 tryout and spent the first four months of the 1944 season in the minors.
They were his only homers in 1945, when he batted .245 and had 19 RBIs.Brown spent the 1946 season serving in the U.S. Army.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 daughter recalled her father telling her about a petition that circulated among several white players in the Dodgers clubhouse protesting the addition of Robinson, who was Black.
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