Greatest 21 Days Baseball Profiles

Todd Brown gave up his senior season at Mercer College, but then went to play semi-pro ball, his hometown Macon Telegraph wrote in June 1990. Soon, he found himself playing in the minors with the Yankees, signed as a full pro, The Telegraph wrote . "Good fighters get knocked down every once in a while," Brown told The Telegraph . "Great fighters get up. If you want something bad enough, you have to keep trying." Brown made the pros, but his stay proved brief . He played that single season, entirely at high-A. Brown's career began and ended that year in 1990, signed by the Yankees out of his native Georgia. Brown started with the Yankees at high-A Fort Lauderdale . He knocked a two-run single in a June game, finishing 3 for 4 in the contest with four RBI. He then broke up a seventh-inning no-hitter with a single in a July game. Overall, Brown got into 56 games for Fort Lauderdale. He picked up 36 hits, 16 RBI and three stolen bases. He hit .247. That season ...