Roosevelt Brown (baseball)
Appearance
Roosevelt Brown | |
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Outfielder | |
Born: Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. | August 3, 1975|
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
Professional debut | |
MLB: May 18, 1999, for the Chicago Cubs | |
NPB: March 28, 2003, for the Orix BlueWave | |
Last appearance | |
MLB: September 29, 2002, for the Chicago Cubs | |
NPB: August 3, 2004, for the Orix BlueWave | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .251 |
Home runs | 11 |
Runs batted in | 69 |
NPB statistics | |
Batting average | .291 |
Home runs | 43 |
Runs batted in | 163 |
Teams | |
Roosevelt Lawayne Brown (born August 3, 1975) is an American former professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1999-2002. He played for the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball and the Orix BlueWave in Japan. Brown ended his career after a season playing for the Charlotte Knights, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, in 2005. He is currently the hitting coach for the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. His cousin is ex-Boston Red Sox outfielder, Ellis Burks. On 13 August 1996, Brown was traded frim the Atlanta Braves to the Florida Marlins in exchange for Terry Pendleton.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Chicago Cubs players
- Orix BlueWave players
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Major League Baseball outfielders
- Baseball players from Mississippi
- Gulf Coast Braves players
- Idaho Falls Braves players
- Eugene Emeralds players
- Macon Braves players
- Kane County Cougars players
- Brevard County Manatees players
- Daytona Cubs players
- West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx players
- Iowa Cubs players
- Charlotte Knights players
- African-American baseball players
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
- American baseball outfielder, 1970s birth stubs