Jophery made his Big League debut on September 21st of 1968, pitching two innings and allowing a run on two hits, not factoring in a decision.
Turns out that would be the sum total of his Major League career, spending all of 1969 in the Minor Leagues before calling it a career.
Don’t feel too bad for the guy, turns out he already had a great career in place that he would ride for the next 40 years: as a Hollywood actor and stuntman!
Brown had already appeared on television some four years before his Big League debut as both an actor “Arrest and Trial” and stuntman “I, Spy”, before coming back full-time in 1973 with an uncredited role in the movie “Coffey”.
He would go on to act in 35 films and do stunts in 115.
Incredible story to his life in Hollywood as a stuntman and actor, doing work in films such as Scarface, Jurassic Park, Spider-Man and of course The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, the classic baseball movie starring James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor from 1975.
Jophery Brown passed away in January of 2014 at the age of 68, after battling cancer. But what a wonderful life he had.
R.I.P.
