Former big leaguer Tommy ... By 1946, Brown was old enough to enlist for military duty himself, and he missed the 1946 season while serving in the U.S. Army. He returned to baseball in 1947 ...

Tommy Brown, the last living member of the historic 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, died at the age of 97 this week. Brown, who played nine years in Major League Baseball in the 1940s and early ’50s and ...

Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit ... whose debut that season broke baseball’s color barrier. Brown’s daughter recalled her father telling her about a petition that circulated among ...

By Richard Goldstein Tommy Brown, who became the youngest position player in modern major-league baseball when he made his debut as a shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in August 1944 at the age ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Tommy Brown, the youngest player to ... whose debut that season broke baseball's color barrier. Brown's daughter recalled her father telling her about a petition that circulated ...

Former big leaguer Tommy ... By 1946, Brown was old enough to enlist for military duty himself, and he missed the 1946 season while serving in the U.S. Army. He returned to baseball in 1947 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Brown, the youngest player ... whose debut that season broke baseball’s color barrier. Brown's daughter recalled her father telling her about a petition that ...

Tommy Brown ... By 1953, Brown's days in the majors were over. He was just 25 years old when he made his final MLB appearance. Brown finished his time at the top of the baseball world as a ...