Jim Brown
Outfielder, Baseball Player
1897 – 1944
Who was Jim Brown?
James Donaldson Brown was a professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball, 1915 for the St. Louis Cardinals and 1916 for the Philadelphia Athletics, primarily as an outfielder.
According to the May/June 2010 Report of the Biographical Research Committee for the Society for American Baseball Research, after his baseball career, Brown was listed in the Los Angeles city directories at various times as a ballplayer, actor, and studio worker. He died October 22, 1944 in Bradwood, Oregon. The death certificate said that he was a resident of Hollywood, worked as a carpenter for a movie firm, and that he had been in Oregon for two months. He was buried in Oregon.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1897
Laurel - Profession
- Lived in
- Laurel
- Died
- Oct 22, 1944
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on July 23, 2013
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