LOS ANGELES -- Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson ...

Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, has died.

Born Thomas Michael Brown on Dec. 6, 1927, in Brooklyn, he signed with his hometown Dodgers after a 1943 tryout and spent the first four months of the 1944 season in the minors. Nicknamed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League Baseball game, died on Wednesday. Brown was 97 years old and died after ...

He played in 46 games for his hometown Brooklyn Dodgers in 1944 ... This included a stint with Nashville’s minor league team from 1955-58 that ended up changing the course of Brown’s life ...

Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native and standout from the ‘Boys of Summer’-era Dodgers who also played for the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, passed away Wednesday, as reported by Ben ...