Robert Paul Brown (July 5, 1876 – June 17, 1962) was an American-born Canadian professional baseball player, manager, and team owner.

[1] He was active in minor league baseball in various capacities from 1900 through 1953, appearing in over 600 games as player and managing for at least 14 seasons.

As a player, Brown was listed at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) and 156 pounds (71 kg); he threw right-handed.

[2] Note that minor league baseball records from the era that Brown was a player and manager are often incomplete.

[2] Records also show him playing 34 games in the Southwestern League in 1926, when he was also manager of the team based in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

[2] Between the 1909 and 1910 seasons, Brown took over sixty percent ownership of the Vancouver Beavers for $500,[3] moving to Canada to take on the role of the team's player-manager.

[1] Brown had built 5,000-seat[3] Athletic Park on land leased from the Canadian Pacific Railway.