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Originally Posted by Tom S.
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Bingo!
Pretty surprising, isn't it?
SABR has a great bio of him:
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/gates-brown/
My favorite quote:
During a road trip in the middle of the 1968 season, Brown was playing poker with a bunch of other players, including Northrup and McLain. Halfway through a hand, Northrup caught McLain cheating. Enraged, he flew across the bed and grabbed McLain by the throat. John Hiller, who was seated next to Brown, recalls Northrup screaming, “I’m gonna kill you, you bastard! I’m gonna kill you!” Red-faced and exasperated, Northrup continued to wring McLain’s neck in anger. But he was eventually pulled off from behind by Gates. A shocked Hiller remembers Brown looking Northrup dead in the eye and saying,
“You’re not gonna touch him until after we win the pennant. Then he’s all yours.”