Willard Brown (outfielder)
Willard Jessie Brown (26 June 1915 – 4 August 1996), nicknamed "Home Run" Brown, was an American baseball player who played outfielder in the Negro Leagues, and Major League Baseball, and is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Read more about Willard Brown (outfielder): Negro League, Major League, Return To The Monarchs, Baseball Hall of Fame, Retirement and Death
Famous quotes containing the words willard and/or brown:
“You made me hate myself.”
—Gilbert Ralston, U.S. screenwriter, and Daniel Mann. Willard (Bruce Davison)
“Lay down, lay down the bigly bier,
Lat me the dead look on;
Wi’ cherry cheeks and ruby lips
She lay an’ smil’d on him.
O ae sheave o’ your bread, true-love,
An’ ae glass o’ your wine,
For I hae fasted for your sake
These fully day [is] nine.”
—Anna Gordon Brown (1747–1810)