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| | Year: | 2022
| | First: | Eddie
| | Last: | Brown
| | Home: | Ohiowa
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Eddie was born in Milligan in 1891, but raised in Ohiowa. Heconsidered this Filmore county village his Nebraska home until he moved to California in 1936.He began his semi-pro career playing Town Team ball in the Fillmore County area, progressed to Pro Ball with Superior in The NSL in 1913 when he hit.426, on to Fairbury, then Army ball after he enlisted in the Air Corps in 1917. He progressed to the high minors after, his honorable discharge in 1919, and was called up to the Majors by the NY Giants in 1920 thru 1921when they were World Champs. He played for Indianapolis in 1922-24 in the American Association, as their leading hitter, finishing the season with the Brooklyn Robins Dodgers in
’24 and 1925 hitting .308 and .306 in those two years. In their infinite wisdom the Robins decided to trade Brown to the Boston Braves for the 1926 season...BAD MOVE! All Eddie did in ’26 was hit.328. lead the NL in hits with 201, bash 8 triples, 31 doubles, 84 RBI’s and according to 1 source, receive 15 votes for MVP on a lowly team. In 651 plate appearances he struck out 20 not a typo times. In his MLB career, he struck out but 109 times in 3127 plate appearances, 1 K PER 28.7 AB’S. He finished his career in the Minors at Omaha and Fairbury and passed in 1956. **Thanks to: Monty Nielsen, Kansas State Registrar Emeritus, for his alerting us to Eddie Brown and providing much of the information for this Article. |
