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Turn back the clock: former player and A.L. President Bobby Brown recalls his Yankee career: second baseman was an off-season medical student during his career and managed to hit .439 in 17 World Series games.
ROBERT W. "BOBBY" BROWN, A LEFT-HANDED batting infielder who averaged .279 during eight seasons with the New York Yankees, saved his best heroics for the postseason. In true Yankee fashion, Brown batted .439 lifetime as the Bronx Bombers won the World Series of 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1951.
In fact, for players with at least 40 at-bats, Bobby fashioned the highest career World Series batting average in the history of baseball. Also, Brown's World Series slugging average of .707 ranks fourth all-time behind Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Reggie Jackson.
But younger baseball fans may better know him for his tenure as president of the American League from 1984 to ...
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