Tommy Brown

Thomas Michael "Buckshot" Brown (born December 6, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York) was a Major League Baseball Utility player from 1944 to 1953. Brown became the youngest player ever to hit a home run in the Major Leagues when he homered on August 20, 1945 at the age of 17. On September 18, 1950 Brown hit three consecutive home runs in a game.

Famous quotes containing the words tommy and/or brown:

    “Tommy: Life is short.
    Alice Hyatt: So are you.”
    —Robert Getchell, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Tommy (Alfred Lutter)

    “Just the same as a month before,—
    The house and the trees,
    The barn’s brown gable, the vine by the door,—
    Nothing changed but the hives of bees.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)