Ollie, aka “Downtown” Ollie Brown, was perhaps the first star of the San Diego Padres, as he hit 20 homers with 61 runs batted in in their inaugural season of 1969.
He’d put together a nice 13-year Major League career spanning 1965 and 1977, hitting 102 homers with a .265 batting average playing for six teams: San Francisco, San Diego, Oakland, Milwaukee, Houston and Philadelphia.
Younger brother Oscar however, would play for a brief five seasons, between 1969 and 1973, all for the Atlanta Braves, never really getting close to full-time action.
He’d finish his career hitting .244 with 77 hits over 316 at-bats in 160 appearances as a Major League outfielder, never playing more than 76 games in any one season, that being in 1972.
I’ll start up this thread again, though it’s tougher to find images of the lesser-known brother sets from the Majors from this time period. We’ll see how lucky I get.
