He also was a physician who studied for his medical degree during his eight-year playing career with the New York Yankees (1946–1952, 1954), where he was a member of four World Series championship teams.

[1][2] He attended Galileo High School in San Francisco, where he attained straight-As and served as president of the student body.

He was chosen in the Selective Service draft one year later and was initially stationed at the naval unit at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

There, he played baseball for the UCLA Bruins, before being temporarily assigned to the Naval Medical Center San Diego.

[5] He made his MLB debut on September 22, 1946, one month short of his 22nd birthday,[2] recording his first hit and scoring his first run in a 4–3 win over the Philadelphia Athletics.

[9] Nicknamed as "Golden Boy" and "Blond Phenom" during his baseball career,[10] Brown played 548 regular-season games for the Yankees,[2] mostly as a platoon third baseman.

The two were reading in their hotel room one night – Berra a comic book and Brown his copy of Boyd's Pathology.

"[13] Brown practiced cardiology in the Dallas–Fort Worth area until May 1974, when he took a leave of absence to serve as an interim president of the AL Texas Rangers – then returned to medicine following the season.