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Elmer Brown

Birthdate:

8/25/1883

Died:

1/23/1955

Height / Weight:

' " / 172 lbs.

Place of Birth:

Southport, IN, USA

Bats / Throws:

L / R

Baseball Historian Biography

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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