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Bobby Brown (third baseman)
Major League Baseball player (1924-2021)
Robert William Brown (October 25, 1924 – March 25, 2021) was an American professional baseball third baseman and executive who was the president of the American League (AL) from 1984 to 1994. He also was a physician who studied for his medical degree during his eight-year playing career with the New York Yankees (1946–1952, 1954), where he was a member of four World Series championship teams.
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Brown's .439 career postseason batting average (18-for-31) ranks second in MLB history, trailing only Bill Hoskins (.487). Brown was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 25, 1924. He attended Galileo High School in San Francisco, where he attained straight-As and served as president of the student body. He studied at Stanford University starting in 1942, where he and another student were involved in the rescue of a Coast Guardsman from a plane crash. Brown consequently received a Silver Lifesaving Medal for his effort. While at Stanford, he joined the Sigma Rho chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was chosen in the Selective Service draft one year later and was initially stationed at the naval unit at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). There, he played baseball for the UCLA Bruins, before being temporarily assigned to the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
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