NOT REALLY MISSING IN ACTION- 1970 OSCAR BROWN

On the blog today, a player who has been a subject of mine here on the blog a couple of times before, former outfielder Oscar Brown, brother of "Downtown" Ollie Brown, who today gets a "not so missing" 1970 card added to his resume:

Oscar made his Big League debut during the 1969 season, appearing in seven games for the West Champion Atlanta Braves and going 1-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored.

Brown would go on to finish up a brief five-year career in 1973, appearing in 22 games, with 62 plate appearances and 58 official at-bats.

He batted .207 with 12 hits, three of them doubles, and three runs scored that season, and finished his career with a .244 batting average, with 77 hits, 14 doubles, two triples, four homers and 28 runs batted in over 160 games, all with Atlanta.

Never a full-time player, the most action he ever saw in any one season was in 1972 when he appeared in 76 games, with 168 plate appearances, almost three-times as many as he would have in any of his other four years as a Big Leaguer.

 

BASEBALL BROTHERS- 1971 OLLIE AND OSCAR BROWN

Been a little while since I created a “Baseball Brothers” card, so here’s a 1971 card of Ollie and Oscar Brown:

Ollie, aka “Downtown” Ollie Brown, was perhaps the first star of the San Diego Padres, as he hit 20 homers with 61 runs batted in in their inaugural season of 1969.
He’d put together a nice 13-year Major League career spanning 1965 and 1977, hitting 102 homers with a .265 batting average playing for six teams: San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, Milwaukee, Houston and Philadelphia.
Younger brother Oscar however, would play for a brief five seasons, between 1969 and 1973, all for the Atlanta Braves, never really getting close to full-time action.
He’d finish his career hitting .244 with 77 hits over 316 at-bats in 160 appearances as a Major League outfielder, never playing more than 76 games in any one season, that being in 1972.
I’ll start up this thread again, though it’s tougher to find images of the lesser-known brother sets from the Majors from this time period. We’ll see how lucky I get.

MISSING IN ACTION- 1974 OSCAR BROWN

Today I'll go ahead and give former Atlanta Braves outfielder Oscar Brown a "missing" card in the 1974 set, take a look at the card I came up with:

Nice and clean, like the rest of that '74 set.

Brown actually finished up a brief five-year career in 1973, appearing in 22 games, with 62 plate appearances and 58 official at-bats.

He batted .207 with 12 hits, three of them doubles, and three runs scored, and finished his career with a .244 batting average, with 77 hits, 14 doubles, two triples, four homers and 28 runs batted in over 160 games, all with Atlanta.

His brother was former big league outfielder "Downtown" Ollie Brown, most notably of the original San Diego Padres.