DOUG DAWSON JOSEPH BROWN

 

 

 

ELECTED:  NOVEMBER 1995                                               

MILWAUKEE, WI

 

 

INDUCTED:  NOVEMBER, 1996

                ALBUQUERQUE, NM

 

 

DOUG BROWN, WHO IN A SPAN OF EIGHT YEARS WAS NAMED TO FIVE ALL WORLD TEAMS, HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE MALE PLAYER CATEGORY.

 

FROM THE TIME THE GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA NATIVE BEGAN PLAYING USSSA SOFTBALL IN 1979, HE HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF SUITING UP WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST TEAMS IN SLO-PITCH, INCLUDING:  DAVE CARROLL SPORTS, JERRY’S CATERERS, ELITE COATINGS, SMYTHE SOX, AJD-RUSSELL, AND STARPATH.  ALTHOUGH HE HAS PLAYED A VARIETY OF POSITIONS INCLUDING THIRD BASE, SHORTSTOP, RIGHT-CENTER, LEFT-CENTER AND CATCHER, BROWN IS PRIMARILY CONSIDERED A SECOND BASEMAN.

 

AS HIS GREATEST SOFTBALL ACCOMPLISHMENT, BROWN LISTS HIS THREE CONSECUTIVE WORLD SERIES TITLES WITH SMYTH SOX IN 1985 AND 1986, THEN ELITE COATINGS IN 1987.  HE WAS THE HOME RUN CHAMPION FOR THE 1988 WORLD SERIES, AND HE POUNDED OUT THE HIGHEST BATTING AVERAGE AND MOST HOME RUNS IN THE 1990 CLASS “AA” WORLD TOURNAMENT.

 

BROWN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TOP PERFORMER AND IS KNOWN AS AN AMBASSADOR OF THE USSSA PROGRAM.