Dee Brown (baseball)


Dermal Bram "Dee" Brown is a former professional baseball outfielder. He attended Marlboro Central High School in Marlboro, New York.
Brown played baseball and football at Marlboro. In football, he rushed for the second-most yards in New York high school history and scored 75 touchdowns. As a junior baseball player, he hit.470 with eight home runs. He committed to play both college baseball and college football at Maryland. Brown was named to the All-America First Team by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings.
Drafted in the first round by the Kansas City Royals in, Brown played for the Royals in parts of major league seasons from -, spending all of the and seasons in the minor leagues with the Wichita Wranglers, the Kansas City Double-A Affiliate. On December 30, 2006, Brown signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was assigned to the Tucson Sidewinders, Arizona's Triple-A affiliate. On May 30, 2007, Brown was traded to the Oakland Athletics for cash considerations. In December 2007, Brown signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and spent the entire season in Triple-A and became a free agent after the season. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the season. He hit.295 with 19 homers and 80 RBI with the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes in 2009.
Brown signed with the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan for the 2010 season.