Baseball Musings: Chris Brown Passes

December 28, 2006

Chris Brown Passes

Chirs Brown died under mysterious circumstances:

Firefighters arrived about 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 30 at the home Brown owned in Sugar Land and found it "fully engulfed" in flames, Adolph said. Firefighters found no people or furniture inside, he said, and neighbors told authorities no one had lived there for some time.
Adolph said officials at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital told the Sugar Land fire department later that morning that Brown was there being treated for burns he suffered in a fire at his house. How Brown got from the burning house to the hospital about 9 miles away is part of the investigation, Adolph said.

Brown was transferred a few hours later to the main Memorial Hermann Hospital, Begay said. Sugar Land authorities never formally interviewed Brown because of his deteriorating condition, Adolph said.

Arson is suspected as the cause of the fire. As the article points out:

He is the second member of the mid-1980s Giants infield to die this month. Jose Uribe played shortstop for the team from 1985-92. He died at 47 in a Dec. 8 car crash in the Dominican Republic.

A friend who saw this stoy last night wrote me:

Look out Will Clark and Robbie Thrompson.

My thoughts go out to Brown's family and friends.

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Comments

Chris was one of the bright spots of the 1985 Giants, a painful team to follow and one I had to by default (Pre internet days)

He also missed a game with an injured eyelid once

http://www.oobsports.com/injury.html

2. Giants head-case third baseman Chris Brown once begged out of the lineup because of a strained eyelid. He claimed he "slept on it wrong."

Posted by: Brian at December 28, 2006 10:28 AM

Chris was one of the bright spots of the 1985 Giants, a painful team to follow and one I had to by default (Pre internet days)

He also missed a game with an injured eyelid once

http://www.oobsports.com/injury.html

2. Giants head-case third baseman Chris Brown once begged out of the lineup because of a strained eyelid. He claimed he "slept on it wrong."

Posted by: Brian at December 28, 2006 10:29 AM

Chris Brown is one of the poignant figures covered in Michael Sokolove's book "The Ticket Out" about the Crenshaw High baseball team which included Brown and Strawberry, about their unfulfilled promise and the circumstances and reasons the promise was unfulfilled. I recommend the book.

The eye incident is as follows: Chris Brown, who had a reputation in the majors for not playing hurt, had an eye infection and couldn't play. It was his manager Larry Bowa, of the great people skills, who claimed that Brown wasn't playing because he slept on his eye wrong.

At the time of his death, Brown had recently returned from his third one-year stint as a driver for Halliburton in Iraq.

Posted by: Capybara at December 28, 2006 01:27 PM

Chris Brown was truly a giving a rightful man. I knew Chris from our days and John Muir Junior High School as well as Crenshaw High School and he was always a true friend and a person that would always find a way to make you smile. Although I was unable to make it to his funeral (I live in Virginia), he will be truly missed

Posted by: Pam at January 9, 2007 12:04 PM

I played with Chris Brown, we were teammates in the minors (Great Falls/Clinton) we last spoke about two years ago in a telephone conversation, which is when I noticed an obvious growth in Chris and his ability to express himself spiritually. Though he probably wasn't the most understood amongst his teammates in professional baseball, and no one fought with him as much as I. Chris Brown was a person, a human being worthy of his final respect. I attended his funeral and I was disappointed at the lack of non-black ballplayers in attendance and the absence of Major League Baseball.

Like him or hate him...he was part of the Major League Baseball family, he didn't just play with black ballplayers. The San Francisco Giants and Major League Baseball should have been in attendance and made themselves visible at his funeral.

Kevin Johnson

Posted by: Kevin Johnson at January 9, 2007 08:43 PM

Chris Brown and I married on December 31, 1996, after dating for more than 10 years. Chris was a very loving man but had a problem with being committed to one woman. As a result he had an affair with an old girl friend Lisa, just 2 months after we got married. She got pregnant and delivered their daughter, Paris Brown just 10 months after our large, beautiful, extravagant wedding at my grandfather's church. The cold part about the entire situation was that all of his family new about the expecting "girl friend" except for me. I found out about the affair and the baby after Lisa came to town from New York with the baby right after the baby was born. I immediately filed for a divorce. After serving Chris with divorce papers, Chris and Lisa moved to Texas and eventully got married the following year. The next time I saw Lisa "Brown", was at Chris's dad's funeral and guess what - she was wearing my wedding ring!, a ring that I had personally designed, picked out the diamonds for, and went with Chris to his personal jeweler to have made. Chris had taken the ring back from me when we seperated but I had no idea that he would give another woman the exact same ring, without having it redesigned or anything! I guess their marriage was destined for failure, given the circumstances under which it was started.

My biggest prayers go out to his daughter, Paris Brown, and his son Chris Brown Jr. who have suffered the greatest loss in losing their father. May God Bless and Keep them always.

I am in the process of writing a book that reveals the 10 years of trials and tribulations I went through with the many, many, women Chris had relationships with while engaged to me. The book will also reveal why I married him, and most importantly offer words of wisdom to other women who are invoved with unfaithful men.

Posted by: Rockell Stiles at January 12, 2007 01:23 AM