MLB / Players

Larry Brown

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornMarch 1, 1940 · Shinnston, WV, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 1963

Final gameSeptember 29, 1974

Seasons12 (1963–1974)

Cleveland Indians 1963–1971; Oakland Athletics 1971–1972; Baltimore Orioles 1973; Texas Rangers 1974

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified batters

132

11.7

521

469

11.7

5.8

112

4.2

1.7

16.7

10.8

RBI

27.5

44.2

62.5

.239

OBP

.304

12.5

SLG

.294

2.5

OPS

.598

4.2

wRC+

65.9

OPS+

66.4

4.2

wOBA

.286

5.8

sWAR

0.2

6.7

of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

75.7

6.5

OPS+

76.6

6.7

sWAR

6.6

82.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	74	281	247	28	63	6	0	5	18	22	27	4	3	.255	.316	.340	.656	86.7	85.0	.302	0.8
1964	115	367	335	33	77	12	1	12	40	24	55	1	2	.230	.283	.379	.662	79.1	83.2	.294	0.5
1965	124	490	438	52	111	22	2	8	40	38	62	5	7	.253	.315	.368	.682	95.6	93.3	.315	2.0
1966	105	384	340	29	78	12	0	3	17	36	58	0	1	.229	.309	.291	.600	76.1	74.5	.281	0.7
1967	152	562	485	38	110	16	2	7	37	53	62	4	4	.227	.308	.311	.620	84.0	84.0	.291	1.7
1968	154	553	495	43	116	18	3	6	35	43	46	1	1	.234	.300	.319	.619	84.9	89.3	.286	1.9
1969	132	521	469	48	112	10	2	4	24	44	43	5	3	.239	.304	.294	.598	65.9	66.4	.286	0.2
1970	72	180	155	17	40	5	2	0	15	20	14	1	0	.258	.339	.316	.655	80.6	78.3	.311	0.4
1971	83	254	239	18	48	3	1	1	14	10	22	1	2	.201	.239	.234	.473	29.2	35.8	.227	-1.0
1972	47	157	142	11	26	2	0	0	4	13	8	0	0	.183	.250	.197	.447	34.1	38.9	.222	-0.6
1973	17	35	28	4	7	0	0	1	5	5	4	0	0	.250	.353	.357	.710	107.8	103.4	.336	0.2
1974	54	87	76	10	15	2	0	0	5	9	13	0	0	.197	.279	.224	.503	50.3	47.5	.251	-0.1

Career totals

1,129

3,871

3,449

331

803

108

RBI

254

317

414

.2328

OBP

.2997

SLG

.3126

OPS

.6123

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1964-05-22	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1964-09-20	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	0	7
1965-06-27	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	2	0	7
1969-05-30	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	2	0	7
1964-05-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	1	1	6

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.