Additionally, Brown was the last living major leaguer whose career began during World War II. With able-bodied men in short ...

He was 16 when he made his debut as a shortstop in an Ebbets Field doubleheader, becoming the youngest position player in ...

In three years in the big leagues, Jackie Robinson had become a superstar, despite racial equality developing slowly across ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on his ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League ...

A Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Cubs and Phillies has ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are turning into a real nightmare. The current MLB champion took home the biggest offseason prize, signing one of the hottest prospects in the Nippon Profes ...

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 a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, passed away this week at the age of 97 in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Brown, who played nine seasons in Major L ...

LOS ANGELES -- Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson ...

Tommy Brown, a career utility player and the final living member of the color-barrier-breaking 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, has passed away at the age of 97. Brown died Wednesday at a rehabilitation ...