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Success on the baseball diamond has always been a part of Kevin Browns career, dating back to his All-American college baseball days. Sarah Edwards details the life of the All-Star pitcher expected to play a major part in the Los Angeles Dodgers return to glory. Browns hard work and determination have brought him to the pinnacle of professional sports, including winning the 1997 World Series as a member of the Florida Marlins.
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SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. www.SportsPublishingInc.com
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1999 Sports Publishing Inc. All rights reserved.
Book design, editor: Susan M. McKinney Cover design: Scot Muncaster Photos: The Associated Press, Georgia Tech, and Wilkinson County Middle School
ISBN: 1-58261-050-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-61945
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. SportsPublishingInc.com
Printed in the United States.
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Contents
Introduction: Making a Decision
1
1 Growing up
7
2 The Blade
16
3 Deep in the Heart of Texas
24
4 No-Hitter and a World Championship
34
5 Leader of the Pack
42
6 The $100 Million Man
51
7 Statistics
61
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Kevin grew in the small town of McIntyre, Georgia. (AP/Wide World Photos)
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Introduction Making a Decision
The year was 1987, long before Kevin Brown led the Florida Marlins and then the San Diego Padres to the World Series in consecutive seasons.
It also was long before he became baseball's first $100 million man.
In 1987, the hard-throwing right-hander was still trying to reach the major leagues for good, let alone become a star. Once again he was beginning to see that playing professional baseball at that level was a dream that, for him, might always remain just thata dream.
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The year before, Kevin had moved up to the majors after only two starts in the minors. He had won his big league debut for the Texas Rangers, joining Bobby Witt and Jim Abbott as the only other pitchers in the 1980s who could make that claim. The future seemed so bright, but now, in 1987, his career appeared to be falling apart before it really began.
Kevin spent the 1987 season working his way through the Rangers' minor league systemSingle-A Port Charlotte, Florida, to Double-A Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Triple-A Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was moving up. That's what those in the Rangers' front office kept reminding him. But Kevin has never been one to humor himself or make-believe that things were any different than what they really are.
The bottom line was that he had won only one game the entire 1987 season. He had gone 1-11,
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In 1998, Brown set the Padres' new single-season strikeout record with 257 Ks. (AP/Wide World Photos)
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losing his final 11 decisions. His ERA was 6.49.
This wasn't anyway to reach the majors, much less stay if he ever got there again. At the end of the season, heading home to Georgia, Kevin decided that he had to change his approach. He knew that the Rangers' coaches were only trying to help him, but too many of them were changing his delivery; they were always reminding him about his pitching mechanics. It had gotten to the point that he was thinking too much, instead of trying to simply to get the batter out.
Nobody is tougher on himself than Kevin Brown. He takes pride in calling himself "the ultimate perfectionist."
Driving home after that season, Kevin decided that he would listen to anybody who tried to help, but he would be the one to decide what to do out on the mound, in the middle of a game.
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That "was the beginning," Kevin later said. "I had to get back to thinking it out for myself. There were some hard years to come, but that's the way I've always done it. Since I was young, I've had the good sense to know what to do when I pitch."
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Kevin in 1998 World Series action against the Yankees. (AP/Wide World Photos)
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