Larry Brown

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 162 lb

BornSeptember 16, 1901 · Pratt City, AL, USA

Seasons25 (1923–1947)

Indianapolis ABCs 1923; Birmingham Black Barons 1923; Memphis Red Sox 1923–1925; Detroit Stars 1926; Chicago American Giants 1927; Memphis Red Sox 1927–1928; Chicago American Giants 1929; Memphis Red Sox 1929; New York Lincoln Giants 1930; Harlem Stars 1931; New York Black Yankees 1932; Chicago American Giants 1933–1935; Philadelphia Stars 1936–1937; Memphis Red Sox 1938; Philadelphia Stars 1938; Memphis Red Sox 1939–1947

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

37.8

334

36.6

272

30.5

18.9

26.2

31.1

28.7

RBI

31.7

56.7

73.2

6.7

34.8

.301

OBP

.406

73.8

SLG

.434

49.4

OPS

.840

57.3

wRC+

120.4

67.7

OPS+

119.1

65.9

wOBA

.390

60.4

sWAR

2.7

68.3

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 266 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.6

89.3

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
1923	23	70	59	6	8	2	0	0	4	6	0	1	0	.136	.215	.169	.385	36.0	16.1	.198	-0.1
1924	56	200	171	21	39	4	5	1	14	16	0	4	0	.228	.309	.327	.636	78.6	74.4	.307	0.5
1925	52	174	151	14	30	7	3	0	15	15	0	0	0	.199	.271	.285	.556	57.7	49.5	.263	0.0
1926	57	172	155	17	44	5	4	2	22	9	0	2	0	.284	.335	.406	.742	89.9	90.3	.341	0.8
1927	79	239	201	22	52	10	2	0	14	24	0	4	0	.259	.341	.328	.669	84.1	81.1	.318	0.9
1928	76	297	249	35	66	13	4	3	36	34	1	0	0	.265	.362	.386	.748	106.9	104.2	.352	1.9
1929	81	334	272	42	82	15	6	3	46	43	0	2	0	.301	.406	.434	.840	120.4	119.1	.390	2.7
1930	34	118	106	16	33	3	2	0	12	11	0	5	0	.311	.376	.377	.753	79.3	73.6	.350	0.3
1931	6	26	22	3	7	2	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	.318	.423	.409	.832	130.1	129.0	.393	0.3
1932	23	86	75	9	14	1	1	1	6	8	1	1	0	.187	.274	.267	.540	51.3	40.9	.264	-0.1
1933	37	143	121	18	36	4	2	0	18	14	0	2	0	.298	.380	.364	.743	107.8	104.4	.349	0.9
1934	31	116	101	14	26	5	0	0	12	10	0	0	0	.257	.324	.307	.631	82.0	77.5	.308	0.4
1935	36	131	115	16	39	4	4	3	24	8	0	0	0	.339	.392	.522	.914	123.3	128.5	.408	1.0
1936	41	129	109	13	29	2	2	1	15	13	1	0	0	.266	.344	.349	.693	82.0	77.4	.329	0.4
1937	26	75	62	8	10	1	0	0	6	7	0	0	0	.161	.246	.177	.424	27.1	11.2	.214	-0.3
1938	28	91	80	8	19	5	0	0	6	8	0	1	0	.238	.330	.300	.630	88.5	80.7	.310	0.4
1939	27	98	86	4	23	3	0	0	10	6	1	1	0	.267	.315	.302	.618	82.2	79.9	.299	0.3
1940	44	159	136	14	36	6	0	0	17	21	0	3	0	.265	.367	.309	.676	108.2	103.9	.346	1.1
1941	10	32	31	2	9	1	0	0	5	1	0	1	0	.290	.313	.323	.635	87.3	88.5	.306	0.2
1942	25	82	73	3	19	4	0	0	10	8	0	0	0	.260	.341	.315	.657	100.2	96.1	.320	0.4
1943	18	58	51	2	10	1	0	0	1	7	1	0	0	.196	.293	.216	.509	68.0	57.0	.264	0.1
1944	14	37	29	1	6	2	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	.207	.324	.276	.599	94.8	86.3	.307	0.2
1945	6	9	8	1	3	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	.375	.444	.500	.944	166.3	176.1	.443	0.1
1946	4	11	9	2	5	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	.556	.600	.667	1.267	249.7	273.5	.601	0.2
1947	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-84.4	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

835

2,888

2,473

292

645

102

RBI

303

279

.2608

OBP

.3424

SLG

.3474

OPS

.6898

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1940-05-12	HSL @ MEM Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	4	0	6
1939-09-13	MEM @ KCM Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	5
1935-07-07	CAG @ ND Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	0	1	1	5
1935-06-22	CAG @ PHS Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	1	5
1935-05-22	TIC @ CAG Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-29	DTS @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-30	DTS @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-05	ABC @ TOL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-06	ABC @ TOL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-07	ABC @ TOL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.

Honors

6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.