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)

    “The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
    Between the two we live and die
    The broken cartwheel on the hill.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)