He was 16 when he made his debut as a shortstop in an Ebbets Field doubleheader, becoming the youngest position player in modern major-league history.

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League Baseball game, died on Wednesday. Brown was 97 years old and

Tommy Brown, the only player in AL/NL history to homer before his 18th birthday and the last living member of the historic 1947 Dodgers, died on Wednesday at the age of 97. Born in Brooklyn in 1927, Brown signed with the then-hometown Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943.

Tommy Brown, who was the last living member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, died at age 97.

Additionally, Brown was the last living major leaguer whose career began during World War II. With able-bodied men in short supply on the home front, Brown debuted for the Dodgers in '44 at the age of 16. In 1945, he hit a home run at the age of 17; he's still the youngest player ever to homer in the major leagues.

Tommy Brown, who was 16 years old when he made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1944, died in Florida on Wednesday at the age of 97.

Tommy Brown, the last living member of the historic 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, died at the age of 97 this week. Brown, who played nine years in Major League Baseball in the 1940s and early ’50s and parts of seven with the Dodgers,