Carroll William "Boardwalk" Brown was a Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 pitcher

Pitcher

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. He was born on February 20, 1889 in Woodbury, New Jersey

Woodbury, New Jersey

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. He batted and threw right handed, and was 178 pounds. Boardwalk played three seasons with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1911-1913. In 1914 he played for both the A's and the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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 and again in 1915 with the Yankees. In his career, Brown had a 38-40 record in 133 games with an ERA

Earned run average

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 of 3.47. Boardwalk Brown died on February 8, 1977 in Burlington, New Jersey

Burlington, New Jersey

Burlington is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 9,920....

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