Tommy Brown, who made history as the youngest Major League Baseball position player of all-time when he made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1944, has died. He was 97.

Robinson joined a Dodgers club that went ... I don't know how many signed, but several did. Jackie was a great ball player." Brooklyn traded Brown to the Philadelphia Phillies in June 1951, and he ...

The Phillies have won five National League pennants ... more on that some other time), Harold Parrott wrote about Pennock's reaction to Jackie Robinson in 1947. Parrott was working for the Dodgers ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

TORONTO, ON - APRIL 15: A Toronto Blue Jays hat with a Jackie Robinson Day logo on it is seen on the field before the Toronto Blue Jays play the New York Yankees in their... TORONTO, ON - APRIL 15 ...

Brooklyn Dodger Tommy "Buckshot" Brown died this morning, after contracting pneumonia while convalescing from a fall, his ...

The Boston Red Sox will pay tribute to Jackie Robinson on Friday, January 31, on what would have been the 106th birthday for the Hall of Famer. The club will visit 6th – 8th grade students at Joseph P ...

Former Brooklyn Dodger Tommy Brown, the youngest position player to debut and last living member of the 1947 Dodgers, died at ...

Tommy Brown, who was the last living member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, died at age 97.

Ultimately Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all ... Brooklyn traded Brown to the Philadelphia Phillies in June 1951, and he appeared in 96 ...