Tommy Brown, the last living member of the ... who broke the color line. Brown signed with the Dodgers following a tryout with the team in 1943 and played the first four months of the 1944 season ...

Tommy Brown, the utility man who played seven of ... I hit my first home run,’” she said. “The Dodgers signed Preacher Roe a few years later. My dad joked his home run ability went down ...