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Tom Brown, who left a career in Major League Baseball to join the NFL‘s Green Bay Packers and won the first two Super Bowls, has died. He was 84.
Lombardi-era safety Tom Brown dies at 84
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) April 28, 2025
Brown spent one season in the Washington Senators’ outfield, batting .147 in 61 games in 1963 as a 22-year-old. That would prove to be his only season of baseball at the Major League level.
Drafted by the Packers out of the University of Maryland, he resurfaced on the gridiron in Green Bay in 1964. After one year as a reserve, he was elevated to Vince Lombardi’s first-string defense the following season.
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Brown won Super Bowl rings with the Packers in 1967 and 1968 — the first two years in the history of the Big Game — and rejoined Lombardi with the Washington Redskins in 1969.
That would prove to be his final season in the NFL.
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