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class="infobox ib-baseball-bio vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><span class="note">Gates Brown</span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Gates_Brown_1966.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gates_Brown_1966.jpg/220px-Gates_Brown_1966.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Gates_Brown_1966.jpg/330px-Gates_Brown_1966.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Gates_Brown_1966.jpg 2x" data-file-width="352" data-file-height="449" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Brown in 1966</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Left_fielder" title="Left fielder">Left fielder</a></b></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Born:</b> <span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1939-05-02</span>)</span>May 2, 1939<br /><a href="/wiki/Crestline,_Ohio" title="Crestline, Ohio">Crestline, Ohio</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Died:</b> September 27, 2013<span style="display:none">(2013-09-27)</span> (aged 74)<br /><a href="/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Detroit, Michigan">Detroit, Michigan</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-baseball-bio-batsthrows"><div><b>Batted:</b> Left</div><div><b>Threw:</b> Right</div></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB debut</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">June 19, 1963, for the Detroit Tigers</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last MLB appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">September 26, 1975, for the Detroit Tigers</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">Batting average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">.257</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">Home runs</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">84</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">Runs batted in</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">322</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownga01.shtml">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Reference" title="Baseball Reference">Baseball Reference</a></b> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5527096#P1825" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Teams</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-teams"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1963_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1963 Major League Baseball season">1963</a>–<a href="/wiki/1975_Major_League_Baseball_season" title="1975 Major League Baseball season">1975</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li>2× <a href="/wiki/World_Series" title="World Series">World Series</a> champion (<a href="/wiki/1968_World_Series" title="1968 World Series">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_World_Series" title="1984 World Series">1984</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William James "Gates" Brown</b> (May 2, 1939 – September 27, 2013) was an American <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Left_fielder" title="Left fielder">left fielder</a> who spent his entire career with the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> (1963–1975). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brown was born in 1939 in <a href="/wiki/Crestline,_Ohio" title="Crestline, Ohio">Crestline, Ohio</a>. He attended Crestline High School and played tailback for the school's football team.<sup id="cite_ref-NJ09_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NJ09-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brown also played baseball in Pony League, American Legion, sandlot and high school competition. He played at the <a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">catcher</a> position, a position his father had also played.<sup id="cite_ref-DT63_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DT63-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BR_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his sophomore year, Brown "got in with the wrong crowd" and spent his junior year at the Boys Industrial School for juvenile offenders in <a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_Ohio" title="Lancaster, Ohio">Lancaster, Ohio</a>. He returned to Crestline High for his senior year, but he was not permitted to compete in sports.<sup id="cite_ref-NJ09_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NJ09-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At age 18, he was arrested and convicted of burglary. He was sentenced to prison at the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_Reformatory" title="Ohio State Reformatory">Ohio State Reformatory</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mansfield,_Ohio" title="Mansfield, Ohio">Mansfield, Ohio</a>, where he was confined for 22 months from 1958 to 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was encouraged by a prison guard who also coached the reformatory's baseball team to join the squad as a <a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">catcher</a>. The coach contacted several major-league teams after being impressed by Brown's batting ability. Tigers <a href="/wiki/Scout_(sport)" title="Scout (sport)">scouts</a> <a href="/wiki/Frank_Skaff" title="Frank Skaff">Frank Skaff</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pat_Mullin" title="Pat Mullin">Pat Mullin</a> helped Brown get <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">paroled</a> a year early and signed him for US$7,000. He chose to join the Tigers despite interest from other teams such as the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>. He explained, "The primary reasons I signed with Detroit is because they didn't have any black players and eventually I figured they would, plus, I had been told about the short right porch at <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)" title="Tiger Stadium (Detroit)">Tiger Stadium</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baseball_career">Baseball career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Baseball career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minor_leagues">Minor leagues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Minor leagues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After signing with the Tigers, Brown spent four years in the team's farm system. He began his professional baseball career in 1960 with the Class C <a href="/wiki/Duluth-Superior_Dukes_(1956%E2%80%9370)" class="mw-redirect" title="Duluth-Superior Dukes (1956–70)">Duluth-Superior Dukes</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_League_(baseball,_1902%E2%80%9371)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern League (baseball, 1902–71)">Northern League</a>. In his first season, he played in the outfield, compiled a .293 batting average with 10 home runs and 68 RBIs, and was selected for the All-Star team.<sup id="cite_ref-BRM_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BRM-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also ranked among the Northern League's leaders with 13 triples (first), 30 stolen bases (second), and 105 runs scored (second).<sup id="cite_ref-SABR_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SABR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also played winter league ball at Tampa in 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-DT63_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DT63-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1961, Brown was promoted to the Class-B <a href="/wiki/Durham_Bulls" title="Durham Bulls">Durham Bulls</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Carolina_League" title="Carolina League">Carolina League</a>. He appeared in 118 games with Durham, compiling a league-best .324 batting average with 15 home runs and 72 RBIs. He was promoted late in the season to the Class-A Knoxville Smokies of the South Atlantic League.<sup id="cite_ref-BRM_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BRM-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was selected to the All-Carolina League team, received a "Player of the Month" award in August 1961, and was named the "Most Popular Smoky".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played winter ball at Dunedin in 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-DT63_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DT63-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1962, Brown was promoted to the Class-AAA Denver Bears of the American Association. He appeared in 139 games with Denver, hitting .300 and scored 73 runs.<sup id="cite_ref-BRM_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BRM-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He hit only four home runs in Denver. After the season, Brown noted that he was swinging just as hard as ever, but "the ball just didn't get up in the air for me."<sup id="cite_ref-DT63_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DT63-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brown began the 1963 season with the Class-AAA Syracuse Chiefs of the International League. He hit .257 with 13 home runs and 43 RBIs in 60 games.<sup id="cite_ref-BRM_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BRM-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was described in <i>The Post-Standard</i> as one of "the most crowd-pleasing players ever to play for the Syracuse Chiefs.<sup id="cite_ref-PS63_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PS63-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Detroit_Tigers">Detroit Tigers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Detroit Tigers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1963_and_1964_seasons">1963 and 1964 seasons</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1963 and 1964 seasons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brown was called up from Syracuse on June 17, 1963. Two days later, on June 19, Brown hit a pinch-hit home run deep into the right field seats at <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway Park</a> in Boston, becoming the 11th American League batter to hit a home run in his first at bat. He was the third player in <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> history to hit a pinch-hit home run in their first at bat.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his second appearance, he hit a clutch single to drive in the winning run in the ninth inning of a game against the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He appeared in 55 games for the Tigers in 1963, including 12 starts in left field and the remainder as a pinch hitter.<sup id="cite_ref-BR_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1964, Brown spent his first full season in the major leagues, appearing in 123 games, including 101 games as the Tigers' starting left fielder. He compiled a .262 batting average with 43 extra-base hits. He posted career-highs in home runs (15), RBIs (54), <a href="/wiki/Run_(baseball)" title="Run (baseball)">runs</a> (65), <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a> (116), <a href="/wiki/Double_(baseball)" title="Double (baseball)">doubles</a> (22), <a href="/wiki/Triple_(baseball)" title="Triple (baseball)">triples</a> (6), <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a> (11) and at bats (426) in 123 games.<sup id="cite_ref-BR_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1965–1967"><span id="1965.E2.80.931967"></span>1965–1967</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1965–1967"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1965, Brown started 44 games at left field, but eventually lost the starting spot to 21-year-old <a href="/wiki/Willie_Horton_(baseball)" title="Willie Horton (baseball)">Willie Horton</a> who tallied 29 home runs and 104 RBIs in his first full season in the majors.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also totaled 43 RBIs in 227 at bats, an impressive average of an RBI for every 5.7 appearances.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Frustrated with the lack of playing time, Brown said early in spring training in 1966 that he wished the Tigers would let him go.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Horton tallied over 100 RBIs and held the left field spot for the second straight year; Brown was limited to 33 games as the starting left fielder in 1966 and was used primarily as a pinch hitter. He compiled a .266 overall batting average but excelled with a .325 average in the pinch-hitting role.<sup id="cite_ref-SABR_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SABR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the 1967 got underway, Brown again expressed disappointment at his role sitting on the bench for the past two seasons. In an interview with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Falls" title="Joe Falls">Joe Falls</a>, Brown said: </p> <blockquote><p>When I was in the minors I used to say that I'd do anything to get to the majors. Even if it meant sitting on the bench, I didn't care. But now I'm here, I've been here five years, and I guess you change in time. Now I'm not content to sit any more. I want to play. I want to help the team, and I want to help myself. . . . I get down a lot. I guess that's only human. But I made up my mind from the very beginning that if I ever played on a team where a player caused dissension, that player would never be me.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>With injuries to Horton early in the 1967 season, Brown was called on to start 17 games early in the 1967 season. However, in June, Brown dislocated a bone in his left wrist crashing into the outfield wall while trying to field a fly ball.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He remained on the injured list until the final month of the season.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the season, he appeared in only 51 games, and his batting average dropped to a career-low .187 in 91 at bats.<sup id="cite_ref-SABR_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SABR-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1968_season">1968 season</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1968 season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gates_Brown_1975.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gates_Brown_1975.jpg/220px-Gates_Brown_1975.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gates_Brown_1975.jpg/330px-Gates_Brown_1975.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Gates_Brown_1975.jpg 2x" data-file-width="331" data-file-height="446" /></a><figcaption>Brown, circa 1967</figcaption></figure> <p>Brown had an outstanding season in 1968, helping the Tigers win the American League pennant and the World Series. While 1968 was called the <a href="/wiki/1968_Major_League_Baseball_season#The_Year_of_the_Pitcher" title="1968 Major League Baseball season">Year of the Pitcher</a>, Brown tallied a batting average of .370 — 140 points higher than the American League average of .230. Brown started only 17 games that season, but appeared in 49 more as a pinch hitter. He also achieved a .442 <a href="/wiki/On-base_percentage" title="On-base percentage">on-base percentage</a> and a .685 <a href="/wiki/Slugging_average" class="mw-redirect" title="Slugging average">slugging average</a> and struck out only four times in 104 at bats.<sup id="cite_ref-BR_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a pinch hitter, Brown hit for a .450 batting average, the eighth-highest single season batting average for a pinch hitter (minimum 30 at bats) in major league history.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>His pinch hits were key in leading the Tigers to the pennant. By early June, he had registered eight hits in 12 pinch hitting at bats.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He hit especially well against rival <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>. On April 11, he had a pinch-hit home run in the ninth inning to lead the Tigers to a 4–3 victory over the Red Sox.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He hit another pinch-hit home run against the Sox on August 10. Brown's mastery of the Sox peaked in an August 11 double-header before a crowd of 49,087 at Tiger Stadium. In the first game, he hit a game-winning home run in the 14th inning to deliver a 5–4 victory. In the second game, he again had the game-winning RBI in the ninth inning.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brown also won over fans with his "every man" charisma. On August 7, 1968, after grabbing two hot dogs from the clubhouse, Brown was ordered by manager <a href="/wiki/Mayo_Smith" title="Mayo Smith">Mayo Smith</a> to pinch hit. He notoriously stuffed the hot dogs in his jersey to hide them from his manager. "I always wanted to get a hit every time I went to the plate. But this was one time I didn't want to get a hit. I'll be damned if I didn't smack one in the gap and I had to slide into second — head first, no less. I was safe with a double. But when I stood up, I had mustard and ketchup and smashed hot dogs and buns all over me. The fielders took one look at me, turned their backs and damned near busted a gut laughing at me. My teammates in the dugout went crazy." After fining Brown $100, Smith said, "What the hell were you doing eating on the bench in the first place?" Brown replied, "I decided to tell him the truth. I said, 'I was hungry. Besides, where else can you eat a hot dog and have the best seat in the house'"<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1968, <i>Detroit Free Press</i> columnist <a href="/wiki/Joe_Falls" title="Joe Falls">Joe Falls</a> wrote: </p> <blockquote><p>"Gates Brown. Everybody's favorite. Anyone who has to struggle in life -- and that's just about all of us -- can relate to this guy. Because nobody has reached the top through a more trying route than Gates Brown. And nobody is happier to be here than Gates Brown.<br />He waddles out to leftfield. That's you playing softball. He stumbles in for a fly ball, lunges and catches it at the last moment. That's you, all right. He rips a triple over the centerfielder's head and raced to third like a runaway fire hydrant. It could be the moment in the office picnic."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> sportswriter <a href="/wiki/Jim_Murray_(sportswriter)" title="Jim Murray (sportswriter)">Jim Murray</a> wrote in September 1968 that Brown had "the most level swing since Joe DiMaggio and added: </p> <blockquote><p>He's batting .459 as a pinch hitter. He hits the "A" pitches farther than some guys hit the batting practice pitches. He strikes out so seldom that pitchers are convinced he could get wood on a cultured pearl, or a machine gun bullet."<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/California_Angels" class="mw-redirect" title="California Angels">California Angels</a> manager <a href="/wiki/Bill_Rigney" title="Bill Rigney">Bill Rigney</a> said: "When I think of Gates Brown, I think of loud noises and line drives. When my pitchers ask me what to do with him, I say, 'Duck'!"<sup id="cite_ref-Murray_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murray-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Later_years">Later years</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1969, Brown's batting average dropped by more than 160 points to .204 in 100 at bats. His slump continued in 1970 as he hit .226 in 124 at bats.<sup id="cite_ref-BR_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1971 to 1973 Brown hit 33 home runs with 110 RBIs in 571 at-bats, including a .338 average in 1971 (66 for 195). He retired at the end of the 1975 season. </p><p>Brown holds the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> record for the most pinch-hit at bats in a career, with 414.<sup id="cite_ref-records_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-records-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his career, Brown collected 107 <a href="/wiki/Pinch_hit" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinch hit">pinch hits</a> including 16 pinch homers - both are also American League career records<sup id="cite_ref-records_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-records-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> - and also twice led the AL in pinch hits (1968 and 1974). </p><p>In a 13-season career, Brown was a .257 <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">hitter</a> with 84 <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home runs</a> and 322 <a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">runs batted in</a> in 1,051 <a href="/wiki/Games_played" title="Games played">games played</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching_career">Coaching career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Coaching career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After retiring as a player, Brown became a scout and rookie league instructor for the Tigers. He returned to majors in 1978 as the Tigers' hitting coach. He continued in that position through the 1984 season. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_later_life">Family and later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Family and later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brown moved to Detroit in 1960. He married Detroiter Norma Jean Sterling in July 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-DT63_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DT63-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Crestline High School renamed its baseball field as Gates Brown Field and established a scholarship fund in Brown's honor. At the time, Brown said: "You dream about something like this, but you don't ever think it's going to happen. I didn't want no fanfare when I was with the Tigers, but this is quite an honor."<sup id="cite_ref-NJ09_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NJ09-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brown died of a heart attack on September 27, 2013, at a nursing home, aged 74. He had been in failing health for the last years of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gates_Brown&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_with_a_home_run_in_their_first_major_league_at_bat" title="List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat">List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat</a></li> <li><a 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