Since his card (for better or worse) is joining the pantheon of ATG, it seems only right to get his take on the famous hot dog incident. The video below is also a great summary of the 1968 year with some wonderful footage (World Series games played during the day!!). Enjoy!
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ6JAtMJQV4[/url]
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Gates Brown Remembers
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Gates Brown Remembers
by george barnard » Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:55 am
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by george barnard » Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:58 am
And this from a 1972 Baseball Digest.
[url]http://books.google.com/books?id=7DIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=baseball+digest+gates+brown&source=bl&ots=_cIMmCpQyl&sig=UvNRhQDvthsClwi_ElyDuj7lVp8&hl=en&ei=sUK-To3-H6n14QS6lZWCBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=baseball%20digest%20gates%20brown&f=false[/url]
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[url]http://books.google.com/books?id=7DIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=baseball+digest+gates+brown&source=bl&ots=_cIMmCpQyl&sig=UvNRhQDvthsClwi_ElyDuj7lVp8&hl=en&ei=sUK-To3-H6n14QS6lZWCBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=baseball%20digest%20gates%20brown&f=false[/url]
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by george barnard » Sat Nov 12, 2011 5:08 am
[url]http://books.google.com/books?id=UCsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=baseball+digest+gates+brown&source=bl&ots=hp0_LKiRoQ&sig=3498_CfxQU6khZgp4gejWopmfMo&hl=en&ei=JkW-Tq6_NNK28QPt3c2-BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=baseball%20digest%20gates%20brown&f=false[/url]
And this
And this
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by george barnard » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:30 am
From a 1984 Sports Illustrated article. I had forgotten that Gates Brown was the Tigers batting coach during that great 1984 season.
PARADISE LOST
Barely a month after beating the San Diego Padres in the World Series, the Detroit Tigers have been hit with the loss of pitching coach Roger Craig and batting coach Gates Brown, both of whom have resigned.
What's all this? Trouble in paradise? Well, partly. Brown, a longtime Detroit favorite (he was the pinch-hitting hero of the Tigers' 1968 world championship team), quit in anger because the Tigers refused to give him a substantial raise. Brown supposedly wanted $50,000; the Tigers offered $42,500. The Tigers' figure represented a 7�% increase, the standard raise the club was giving all non-playing personnel. Because Detroit led the majors in home runs and RBIs, Brown felt his contributions deserved a bigger salute than that. Management didn't agree and, in effect, told Brown to take it or leave it. He left it.
As for Craig, he said in spring training that this would probably be his last year, that he wanted to pack it in and rejoin his wife, children and grandchildren in Southern California. In July he notified the club that his mind was made up: He'd retire at the end of the season.
Although the Tigers tried to dissuade him (whether they sweetened the pot for him is not known, but Craig's salary—pitching coaches are usually well paid—was higher than Brown's), last week Craig made it official. Rumors persist that he may yet unretire and sign with the Padres—he was San Diego's pitching coach for seven seasons and its manager in 1978 and '79—since he could live at home. In any case, Craig wouldn't mind seeing an old friend from San Diego take his place in Detroit. He's Norm Sherry, who was dropped as Padres pitching coach after the San Diego starters did so poorly against Detroit in the Series.[/url]
PARADISE LOST
Barely a month after beating the San Diego Padres in the World Series, the Detroit Tigers have been hit with the loss of pitching coach Roger Craig and batting coach Gates Brown, both of whom have resigned.
What's all this? Trouble in paradise? Well, partly. Brown, a longtime Detroit favorite (he was the pinch-hitting hero of the Tigers' 1968 world championship team), quit in anger because the Tigers refused to give him a substantial raise. Brown supposedly wanted $50,000; the Tigers offered $42,500. The Tigers' figure represented a 7�% increase, the standard raise the club was giving all non-playing personnel. Because Detroit led the majors in home runs and RBIs, Brown felt his contributions deserved a bigger salute than that. Management didn't agree and, in effect, told Brown to take it or leave it. He left it.
As for Craig, he said in spring training that this would probably be his last year, that he wanted to pack it in and rejoin his wife, children and grandchildren in Southern California. In July he notified the club that his mind was made up: He'd retire at the end of the season.
Although the Tigers tried to dissuade him (whether they sweetened the pot for him is not known, but Craig's salary—pitching coaches are usually well paid—was higher than Brown's), last week Craig made it official. Rumors persist that he may yet unretire and sign with the Padres—he was San Diego's pitching coach for seven seasons and its manager in 1978 and '79—since he could live at home. In any case, Craig wouldn't mind seeing an old friend from San Diego take his place in Detroit. He's Norm Sherry, who was dropped as Padres pitching coach after the San Diego starters did so poorly against Detroit in the Series.[/url]
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by Mr Baseball World » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:59 am
Good stuff!!!!! Spent a bit of time looking through that entire baseball digest issue.
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by scorehouse » Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:24 pm
never knew about the hotdog story. brown had a similar season in 71 when he had double the abs.
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by CrapgameKen » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:49 am
You come up with the neatest stuff george, keep it coming. :D
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