James Donaldson Brown (March 31, 1897 – October 22, 1944) was a

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player. He played parts of two seasons in

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, 1915 for the

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and 1916 for the

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, primarily as an

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. According to the May/June 2010 Report of the Biographical Research Committee for the

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, after his baseball career, Brown was listed in the Los Angeles city directories at various times as a ballplayer, actor, and studio worker. He died October 22, 1944 in Bradwood, Oregon. The death certificate said that he was a resident of Hollywood, worked as a carpenter for a movie firm, and that he had been in Oregon for two months. He was buried in Oregon.

External links

Jim Brown at Sports Illustrated
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