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 ...

It seems as though there’s this agenda to stoke fear,” Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick said.

Born Thomas Michael Brown on Dec. 6, 1927, in Brooklyn, he signed with his hometown Dodgers after a 1943 tryout and spent the first four months of the 1944 season in the minors. Nicknamed ...

He returned to the Dodgers in 1947, joining a roster that included future Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese and Robinson, whose debut that season broke baseball’s color barrier. Brown's ...

LOS ANGELES — (AP) — 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 ...