Dermal Bram "Dee" Brown (born March 27, 1978) is an American former professional

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. Brown played for the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics of

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and the

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Career

Brown attended Marlboro Central High School in

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, where he played baseball and football. In football, he rushed for the second-most yards in New York high school history and scored 75

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s. As a junior baseball player, he

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.470 with eight home runs. He committed to play both

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and college football at the

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, for the

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. Brown was named to the ABCA/Rawlings High School All-America First Team by the

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and Rawlings. The Kansas City Royals selected Brown in the first round, with the 14th overall selection, of the Kansas City Royals in the 1996 Major League Baseball draft. Brown played for the Royals in parts of major league seasons from through . He spent all of the and seasons in the minor leagues with the

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, Kansas City's Double-A Affiliate. On December 30, 2006, Brown signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the

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and was assigned to the

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, Arizona's Triple-A affiliate. On May 30, 2007, Brown was traded to the Oakland Athletics for cash considerations. In December 2007, Brown signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and spent the entire season in Triple-A and became a free agent after the season. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the season. He hit .295 with 19 homers and 80 RBI with the AAA

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in 2009. Brown signed with the

in Japan for the 2010 season and returned to the Lions in the 2011 season.

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