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Clinton Harold Brown (July 8, 1903 – December 31, 1955) was a professional
baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding te ...
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Biography

Born on July 8, 1903, in Blackash, Pennsylvania, Brown was a right-handed
pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...
over parts of fifteen seasons (1928–1942) with the
Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since , they have played at Progressive Fi ...
and
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. For his career, he compiled an 89–93 record in 434 appearances, mostly as a
relief pitcher In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed because of fatigue, ineffectiveness, injury, or ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as inclement weat ...
, with a 4.26
earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...
and 410 strikeouts. As a hitter, Brown was better than average, posting a .199
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(91-for-457) with 42 runs, 2 home runs, 46 RBI and 45 bases on balls. Defensively, he was better than average, recording a .975 fielding percentage which was 20 points higher than the league average at his position. In 1939, Brown finished 11th in the voting for
American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ...
Most Valuable Player.


Death

Brown died on December 31, 1955, in
Rocky River, Ohio Rocky River is a city in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. A suburb of Cleveland, it is located along the shore of Lake Erie approximately west of downtown Cleveland. The city is named for the Rocky River that forms its eastern bor ...
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See also

* List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Clint 1903 births 1955 deaths Cleveland Indians players Chicago White Sox players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Pennsylvania Harrisburg Senators players Rochester Tribe players New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) players