Ed Brown

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 9th, 2017

Ed Brown lived baseball. He played baseball in the 1910’s and 20’s. He had a major league tryout but refused to sign a contract because he wouldn’t play ball on Sunday. Every single person who played Little League. Connie Mack baseball, or senior baseball, was at one time or another coached by Ed Brown. He was also a pitching guru. In the late 1950’s a group of men built a ballpark in Prescott, and they did it right. Brick dust basepaths, major league dimensions, 5-foot homerun fence, lights, dugouts, on-deck circles and netting.

Ed Brown now had a place to teach the game he loved. Often, he would sneak away to the ballpark and say, “Don’t let my wife know I’m here; she thinks I’m at choir practice.” Ed Brown was everyone’s coach. Every team in town had Ed in their dogout. He was just there, Ed Brown, the man who taught the game to kids for nearly three-quarters of a century.