Chris Brown (baseball)

Chris Brown ( born August 15, 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, † December 26, 2006 in Houston, Texas), actually John Christopher Brown, was an American baseball player. In the 1980s he played in the Major League for the San Francisco Giants.

Youth

Chris Brown was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi and moved early with his parents to Los Angeles in California. He went there on the Crenshaw High School and played for their team baseball, then along with Darryl Strawberry. The crew of the Crenshaw High in 1979 was the center of the book The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw by Michael Sokolove.

Career

Brown was discovered in 1979 in the second round of the Major League Drafts and came to the San Francisco Giants. After Brown was able to maintain League system for the Giants in the Minor, he denied in September 1984 his Major League debut and soon became the third baseman. In his first full season he hit .261/.345/.442 in 1985 and became fourth in the NL Rookie -of- the-year list. Middle of the 1986 season, he came back with .317/.376/.421 even into the All-Star team. But in the same year Brown complained of a shoulder injury, initial investigations could not find anything serious. Teammates and the media wanted to force him to leave the team. During the winter break, he was again examined by Dr. Frank Jobe, this could see a serious problem, and Brown was subsequently operated on. The next season was rather weak for him to .237/.299/.394 and he was sold along with Keith Comstock, Mark Davis and Mark Grant to the San Diego Padres. The Giants got for Kevin Mitchell, Dave Dravecky and Craig Lefferts of the Padres. After one and a half years with the Padres, he moved again and went to the Detroit Tigers. 1990 Brown finished with 28 years of his baseball career.

Life after baseball

Brown lived after his baseball career in Houston. In 2004 he went to Iraq to work for the company Halliburton. On April 9, 2004, he drove a tanker truck full of diesel when his convoy was attacked and six drivers and a GI died. Another rider was then kidnapped and later released. 2006 Brown returned to the United States.

Death

On 30 November 2006 Chris Brown suffered serious injuries when a house owned by him, burned abandoned house in Sugar Land. Sugar Land is a prosperiende city with just 80,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Houston (Texas ). Less than a month later, on December 26, 2006, he died in a hospital in Houston at the age of 45 years. He is survived by his wife Lisa and two children.

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