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Elmer Brown
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Birthdate: 8/25/1883 Died: 1/23/1955
Height / Weight: ' " / 172 lbs. Place of Birth: Southport, IN, USA
Bats / Throws: L / R

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Pitcher Right-handed St Louis Browns 1911-12; Brooklyn Dodgers 1913-1915 – Nicknamed ‘Shook’ – Born: Southport Indiana on April 25 1883

Armed with a nice fastball Elmer Brown pitched in the majors for five years.He first pitched in St Louis in 1911 and had a 1-1 win/loss record, a 6.61 earned run average, pitched 16 1/3 innings, completed 1-of-3 starts, pitched a shutout and came on in relief in two others. Moved into the Browns starting rotation in 1912, Shook Brown made 11 starts, completed 2 of them, worked 120 1/3 innings, struckout 45 batters, walked 42, pitched one shutout, finished with a 5-8 record, with a solid 2.99 ERA. The 5-11.5-inches, 172-pounder was traded to the Dodgers in 1913, and pitched 3 seasons for Brooklyn, going 0-0 in 3 games in 1913, then 2-2 in 11 games in 1914, and 0-0 in 1 game in 1915… baseballhistorian.com


Pitching Statistics
Year Team G GS W L SV CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WP HBP BK ERA
1911 SLB (AL) 5 3 1 1 0 1 1 16.2 16 14 12 0 14 0 5 1 0 0 6.48
1912 SLB (AL) 23 13 5 8 0 2 1 120.1 122 56 40 2 42 0 45 4 12 0 2.99
1913 BRO (NL) 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 13.0 6 3 3 0 10 0 6 0 1 0 2.08
1914 BRO (NL) 11 4 1 2 0 1 0 36.2 33 24 16 2 23 0 22 2 7 0 3.93
1915 BRO (NL) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 4 4 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 9.00
5 years   43 21 7 11 0 4 2 188.2 181 101 73 4 92 0 79 7 20 0 3.49
Batting Statistics
Year Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS IBB HBP SH SF AVG OBP SLG
1911 SLB (AL) 5 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .125 .125 SLG
1912 SLB (AL) 23 36 1 6 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .167 .189 SLG
1913 BRO (NL) 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .0 SLG
1914 BRO (NL) 11 12 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 .83 .83 SLG
1915 BRO (NL) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 .0 SLG
5 years   43 60 3 8 1 1 0 4 1 9 0 0 0 0 3 0 .133 .148 .SLG



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