Category: Sports
Tommy Brown, youngest player to homer and last living member of historic 1947 Dodgers, dies at 97
Nicknamed “Buckshot,” the 6-foot-1 Brown was 16 years, 241 days old when he started at shortstop at Ebbets Field against the Chicago Cubs on Aug. 3, 1944, during the World War II manpower shortage.
Continue ReadingBob Uecker, longtime Milwaukee Brewers announcer and ‘Mr. Baseball,’ dies at 90
Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died
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