Chris Brown (baseball player)
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| Third baseman | |
| Born: August 15, 1961 Jackson , United States 
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| Died on: December 26th, 2006 Houston , United States
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| Suggested: Right | Threw: Right |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| September 3, 1984 with the San Francisco Giants | |
| Last MLB assignment | |
| May 16, 1989 with the Detroit Tigers | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | , 269 |
| Home runs | 38 |
| Runs Batted In | 184 |
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John Christopher Brown (born August 15, 1961 in Jackson , Mississippi , † December 26, 2006 in Houston , Texas ) was an American baseball player . In the 1980s he played in the major league for the San Francisco Giants .
youth
Chris Brown was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961 and moved to Los Angeles , California with his parents at an early age . He went to Crenshaw High School and played baseball for their team, then with Darryl Strawberry . The 1979 Crenshaw High crew was the focus of Michael Sokolove's book The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw .
Career
Brown was discovered in the second round of the Major League Draft in 1979 and joined the San Francisco Giants . After Brown was able to assert himself in the minor league system for the Giants, he made his major league debut in September 1984 and soon became the third baseman. In his first full season in 1985, he beat .261 / .345 / .442 and was fourth on the NL Rookie-of-the-Year list. In the middle of the 1986 season he even joined the All-Star Team with .317 / .376 / .421 . But in the same year Brown complained of a shoulder injury, the first examinations could not determine anything serious. Teammates and the media wanted to urge him to leave the team. During the winter break he was again met by Dr. Frank examined Jobe, who found a serious problem, and Brown was operated on. The next season was rather weak for him with .237 / .299 / .394 and he was sold to the San Diego Padres along with Keith Comstock, Mark Davis and Mark Grant . The Giants got Kevin Mitchell, Dave Dravecky and Craig Lefferts from the Padres. After a year and a half with the Padres, he moved again and went to the Detroit Tigers . In 1990, Brown ended his baseball career at the age of 28.
Life after baseball
Brown lived in Houston after his baseball career . In 2004 he went to Iraq to work for the Halliburton company. On April 9, 2004, he was driving a tank truck full of diesel when his convoy was attacked and six drivers and one GI died. Another driver was kidnapped and later released. In 2006 Brown returned to the United States.
death
On November 30, 2006, Chris Brown was seriously injured when an empty house in Sugar Land he owned burned down. Sugar Land is a prosperiende town of just 80,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Houston ( Texas ). Less than a month later, on December 26, 2006, he died in a Houston hospital at the age of 45. He left behind his wife Lisa and two children.
Web links
- Player information and statistics Baseball Reference , or The Baseball Cube (English)
- "Ex-baseball player Chris Brown dies after fire" at chron.com (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brown, Chris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, John Christopher (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jackson , Mississippi |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2006 |
| Place of death | Houston , Texas |