Embellished Two-Time Tremendous Bowl Champion, MLB Outfielder Dies at 84

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Tom Brown, who left a profession in Main League Baseball to affix the NFL‘s Inexperienced Bay Packers and gained the primary two Tremendous Bowls, died Wednesday. He was 84.

Brown spent one season within the Washington Senators’ outfield, batting .147 in 61 video games in 1963 as a 22-year-old. That may show to be his solely season of baseball on the Main League degree.

Drafted by the Packers out of the College of Maryland, he resurfaced on the gridiron in Inexperienced Bay in 1964. After one yr as a reserve, he was elevated to Vince Lombardi’s first-string protection the next season.

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Brown gained an NFL championship with the Packers in 1966, then gained Tremendous Bowl rings with the Packers in 1967 and 1968 — the primary two years within the historical past of the Huge Sport. He thus turned the primary MLB participant to win a Tremendous Bowl.

Brown rejoined Lombardi in Washington, D.C., in 1969. His solely recreation with Washington that season would show to be his final within the NFL.

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The Senators relocated to Texas and have become the Rangers after the 1971 season. The franchise relocation and Brown’s comparatively quick profession in MLB made his two-way exploits straightforward to miss among the many few to play each baseball and soccer on the sports activities’ highest ranges.

Nonetheless, Brown and Deion Sanders are the one two athletes to win each a Tremendous Bowl and hit a house run in an MLB recreation.

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Throughout a 2009 interview, Brown recalled his first encounter with Lombardi in 1964. According to the team website, the Corridor of Fame coach was anxious to get a take a look at Brown after he had deserted his baseball profession.

“I met Coach Lombardi on the steps of Sensenbrenner Corridor the primary day,” Brown said in reference to the Packers’ dormitory at St. Norbert School. “I had simply left baseball with the York White Roses within the Washington Senators’ group. I informed Coach Lombardi I would decide by July 1st. So I mentioned, ‘OK.’ He mentioned, ‘We’ll ship you a aircraft ticket and we’ll see you at coaching camp.’

“I feel I might most likely have performed main league ball, however not as a starter; most likely as a utility participant. However I had the chance to play with the Packers, and I took that chance.”

Brown was a member of the University of Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame and an lively member within the Salisbury, Md., group he referred to as house. He ran a baseball, basketball, and football league for 6- to 12-year-olds within the space from 1989 to 2015.

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