A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Chicago Cubs and ... baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black ...

He would also suit up for the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia ... for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and ...

Nicknamed “Buckshot,” the 6-foot-1 Brown was 16 years, 241 days old when he started at shortstop at Ebbets Field against the Chicago Cubs on Aug ... Pee Wee Reese and Robinson, whose debut ...