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Tom Brown, who left a career in Major League Baseball to join the NFL‘s Green Bay Packers and won the first two Super Bowls, has died. He was 84.
Lombardi-era safety Tom Brown dies at 84
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) April 28, 2025
Brown spent one season in the Washington Senators’ outfield, batting .147 in 61 games in 1963 as a 22-year-old. That would prove to be his only season of baseball at the Major League level.
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Drafted by the Packers out of the University of Maryland, he resurfaced on the gridiron in Green Bay in 1964. After one year as a reserve, he was elevated to Vince Lombardi’s first-string defense the following season.
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Brown won an NFL championship with the Packers in 1966, then won Super Bowl rings with the Packers in 1967 and 1968 — the first two years in the history of the Big Game. He thus became the first former MLB player to win a Super Bowl.
Brown rejoined Lombardi in Washington D.C. in 1969. His only game with Washington that season would prove to be his last in the NFL.
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The Senators relocated to Texas and became the Rangers after the 1971 season. The franchise relocation, and Brown’s relatively short career in MLB, made his two-way exploits easy to overlook among the few to play both baseball and football at the sports’ highest levels.
Still, Brown and Deion Sanders are the only two athletes to win both a Super Bowl and hit a home run in an MLB game.
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