Born: May 31, 1943 in Holdenville, OK
High School: Moss (Holdenville, OK)
Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1962.
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Debut: July 2, 1970
Final Game: September 27, 1977
Relatives: Brother of Paul Brown
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| 1970 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1970-07-02 | Billy Conigliaro | BOS | WSA | ahead 4-0 | b 8 | 2 | --- | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1% | 99% | Home Run (Deep LF) | ||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1970-07-17 | Clyde Wright | CAL | @ | WSA | ahead 4-0 | t 4 | 1 | --- | 1 | 9 | 1 | 4% | 93% | Home Run | |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1970-08-15 | Tommy McCraw | CHW | @ | WSA | behind 0-1 | t 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 3 | 18% | 50% | Home Run | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1970-08-15 | Ed Herrmann | CHW | @ | WSA | behind 1-4 | t 9 | 1 | --- | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2% | 3% | Home Run | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1970-08-18 | Bob Oliver | KCR | @ | WSA | ahead 6-5 | t 7 | 1 | 12- | 3 | 6 | 3 | 20% | 95% | Home Run; Otis Scores; Kirkpatrick Scores | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1970-09-06 | Jim Northrup | DET | @ | WSA | ahead 2-1 | t 3 | 0 | 12- | 3 | 4 | 9 | 17% | 88% | Home Run; Stanley Scores; Brown Scores | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1970-09-10 | Ted Uhlaender | CLE | WSA | ahead 4-1 | b 3 | 2 | 12- | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11% | 96% | Home Run (Deep RF); Hinton Scores; Brown Scores | ||
| 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1970-09-10 | Vada Pinson | CLE | WSA | ahead 7-1 | b 4 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1% | 98% | Home Run (Deep RF) | ||
| 1971 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1971-06-24 | Don Buford | BAL | @ | WSA | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11% | 61% | Lead-Off | Home Run |
| 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1971-06-25 | Jake Gibbs | NYY | WSA | ahead 8-1 | b 5 | 1 | --3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0% | 100% | Home Run; Blomberg Scores | ||
| 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1971-06-28 | Doug Griffin | BOS | WSA | ahead 1-0 | b 3 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10% | 77% | Home Run | ||
| 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1971-06-28 | John Kennedy | BOS | WSA | behind 2-3 | b 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 4 | 24% | 58% | Home Run | ||
| 13 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1971-07-08 | Merv Rettenmund | BAL | WSA | behind 0-1 | b 1 | 1 | 12- | 3 | 4 | 9 | 26% | 74% | Home Run (CF-RF); Buford Scores; Blair Scores | ||
| 14 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1971-07-25 (2) | Rick Reichardt | CHW | WSA | ahead 2-0 | b 3 | 2 | --- | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8% | 84% | Home Run | ||
| 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1971-07-25 (2) | Tom Egan | CHW | WSA | ahead 3-0 | b 3 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 7 | 2 | 9% | 94% | Home Run; Johnstone Scores | ||
| 16 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1971-08-02 | Willie Horton | DET | WSA | ahead 5-2 | b 4 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8% | 95% | Home Run; Brown Scores | ||
| 17 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 1971-09-26 | Reggie Smith | BOS | WSA | ahead 5-1 | b 7 | 1 | -2- | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2% | 99% | Home Run; Oglivie Scores | ||
| 1973 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 18 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1973-07-22 | Aurelio Rodriguez | DET | @ | TEX | behind 1-3 | t 8 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 8 | 5 | 32% | 45% | Home Run; Cash Scores | |
| 19 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1973-08-04 | Tony Muser | CHW | TEX | behind 0-3 | b 4 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10% | 31% | Home Run | ||
| 20 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 1973-08-04 | Carlos May | CHW | TEX | behind 1-3 | b 5 | 2 | -2- | 2 | 5 | 10 | 25% | 51% | Home Run; Melton Scores | ||
| 21 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1973-08-20 | Carlton Fisk | BOS | @ | TEX | behind 3-4 | t 9 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 2 | 67% | 83% | Home Run; Cater Scores | |
| 22 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1973-08-25 | Buddy Bell | CLE | TEX | tied 5-5 | b 9 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 5 | 37% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run | |
| 23 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1973-09-16 | Ray Fosse | OAK | TEX | ahead 6-4 | b 6 | 1 | --- | 1 | 8 | 2 | 7% | 92% | Home Run | ||
| 24 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 1973-09-22 | Rick Reichardt | KCR | TEX | tied 3-3 | b 14 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 7 | 44% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run (LF-CF); McRae Scores | |
| 1974 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 25 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1974-05-25 | Tony Oliva | MIN | TEX | tied 1-1 | b 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 4 | 10 | 18% | 75% | Home Run | ||
| 26 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1974-06-06 | Oscar Gamble | CLE | TEX | behind 0-4 | b 7 | 1 | --- | 1 | 5 | 10 | 4% | 9% | Home Run | ||
| 27 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 1974-06-15 | Darrell Porter | MIL | @ | TEX | behind 0-1 | t 7 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 2 | 35% | 71% | Home Run; Scott Scores | |
| 28 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 1974-06-19 | Ben Oglivie | DET | @ | TEX | tied 0-0 | t 4 | 1 | --- | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14% | 61% | Home Run | |
| 29 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 1974-06-23 | Frank Robinson | CAL | @ | TEX | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 2 | --3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 19% | 68% | Home Run; Llenas Scores | |
| 30 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 1974-06-23 | Leroy Stanton | CAL | @ | TEX | ahead 2-0 | t 1 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 9 | 15% | 83% | Home Run; McCraw Scores | |
| 31 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 1974-07-01 | Harmon Killebrew | MIN | TEX | behind 1-6 | b 9 | 1 | --- | 1 | 9 | PH | 0% | 1% | Home Run | ||
| 32 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 1974-07-06 | Thurman Munson | NYY | @ | TEX | behind 1-3 | t 4 | 2 | -2- | 2 | 7 | 2 | 22% | 45% | Home Run (Deep LF); Nettles Scores | |
| 33 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 1974-07-06 | Chris Chambliss | NYY | @ | TEX | ahead 4-3 | t 5 | 2 | 12- | 3 | 6 | 3 | 25% | 90% | Home Run (Deep CF-RF); Murcer Scores; Nettles Scores | |
| 34 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 1974-07-28 | Vada Pinson | KCR | @ | TEX | behind 2-6 | t 9 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4% | 6% | Home Run; Wohlford Scores | |
| 35 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 1974-08-09 | Al Kaline | DET | @ | TEX | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 2 | --- | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11% | 57% | Home Run | |
| 36 | 36 | 12 | 1 | 1974-09-01 | Rusty Torres | CLE | @ | TEX | behind 1-8 | t 7 | 1 | --- | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0% | 1% | Home Run | |
| 37 | 37 | 13 | 1 | 1974-09-14 | Reggie Jackson | OAK | @ | TEX | ahead 2-1 | t 4 | 0 | --- | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11% | 75% | Home Run | |
| 1975 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 38 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 1975-04-18 | Amos Otis | KCR | @ | TEX | ahead 2-0 | t 3 | 1 | --- | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9% | 79% | Home Run (LF-CF) | |
| 39 | 39 | 2 | 2 | 1975-04-18 | Harmon Killebrew | KCR | @ | TEX | ahead 4-3 | t 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 5 | 10 | 12% | 79% | Home Run | |
| 40 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 1975-05-09 | Willie Horton | DET | TEX | behind 0-2 | b 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14% | 36% | Home Run | ||
| 41 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 1975-05-17 | Willie Horton | DET | @ | TEX | behind 0-2 | t 4 | 0 | -2- | 2 | 4 | 10 | 17% | 50% | Home Run; Meyer Scores | |
| 42 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 1975-05-24 | Bobby Bonds | NYY | TEX | ahead 3-2 | b 4 | 1 | 1-3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 16% | 92% | Home Run; Chambliss Scores; Alomar Scores/unER | ||
| 43 | 43 | 6 | 1 | 1975-06-08 (2) | George Hendrick | CLE | TEX | behind 1-3 | b 3 | 2 | -23 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 31% | 64% | Home Run; Bell Scores; Manning Scores | ||
| 44 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 1975-06-09 | Bernie Carbo | BOS | TEX | behind 0-7 | b 6 | 2 | 123 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 9% | 12% | Home Run; Beniquez Scores; Evans Scores; Griffin Scores | ||
| 45 | 45 | 8 | 1 | 1975-06-18 | Lee May | BAL | @ | CLE | ahead 5-0 | t 2 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6% | 95% | Home Run; Davis Scores | |
| 46 | 46 | 9 | 2 | 1975-06-18 | Ken Singleton | BAL | @ | CLE | ahead 7-1 | t 4 | 1 | --- | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2% | 97% | Home Run | |
| 47 | 47 | 10 | 1 | 1975-06-26 | Darrell Porter | MIL | CLE | behind 0-9 | b 9 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0% | 0% | Home Run; Thomas Scores | ||
| 48 | 48 | 11 | 1 | 1975-07-07 | Joe Rudi | OAK | CLE | ahead 6-3 | b 8 | 1 | --- | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1% | 99% | Home Run | ||
| 49 | 49 | 12 | 1 | 1975-08-14 | Bill Stein | CHW | CLE | ahead 5-4 | b 8 | 1 | --- | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8% | 94% | Home Run | ||
| 50 | 50 | 13 | 1 | 1975-08-16 | Phil Roof | MIN | CLE | ahead 6-1 | b 5 | 0 | -2- | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2% | 99% | Home Run; Terrell Scores | ||
| 51 | 51 | 14 | 1 | 1975-09-05 | Willie Horton | DET | @ | CLE | ahead 5-1 | t 5 | 1 | -2- | 2 | 4 | 10 | 5% | 96% | Home Run; Meyer Scores | |
| 52 | 52 | 15 | 1 | 1975-09-10 (2) | Don Baylor | BAL | @ | CLE | behind 1-4 | t 7 | 1 | --- | 1 | 6 | 7 | 7% | 14% | Home Run | |
| 53 | 53 | 16 | 1 | 1975-09-17 | Billy Baldwin | DET | CLE | ahead 3-0 | b 7 | 2 | --- | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3% | 97% | Home Run | ||
| 1976 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 54 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 1976-04-13 | Carlton Fisk | BOS | CLE | ahead 5-4 | b 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 2 | 11% | 85% | Home Run | ||
| 55 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 1976-04-24 | Don Baylor | OAK | @ | CLE | behind 2-4 | t 3 | 2 | 12- | 3 | 4 | 3 | 33% | 59% | Home Run; North Scores; Rudi Scores | |
| 56 | 56 | 3 | 1 | 1976-05-02 (1) | Rusty Torres | CAL | @ | CLE | behind 2-3 | t 5 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 8 | 16% | 50% | Home Run | |
| 57 | 57 | 4 | 1 | 1976-05-07 | Bobby Bonds | CAL | CLE | behind 1-4 | b 8 | 0 | 12- | 3 | 3 | 9 | 40% | 60% | Home Run; Remy Scores; Torres Scores | ||
| 58 | 58 | 5 | 2 | 1976-05-07 | Bill Melton | CAL | CLE | tied 4-4 | b 8 | 0 | --- | 1 | 4 | 10 | 29% | 88% | Home Run | ||
| 59 | 59 | 6 | 1 | 1976-06-11 | Brian Downing | CHW | @ | CLE | behind 1-2 | t 7 | 2 | --- | 1 | 6 | 2 | 22% | 44% | Home Run | |
| 60 | 60 | 7 | 2 | 1976-06-11 | Buddy Bradford | CHW | @ | CLE | behind 2-3 | t 9 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 9 | 35% | 50% | Home Run | |
| 61 | 61 | 8 | 1 | 1976-06-16 | Tom Grieve | TEX | CLE | behind 2-8 | b 8 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1% | 1% | Home Run; Howell Scores | ||
| 62 | 62 | 9 | 1 | 1976-07-19 (2) | Billy Williams | OAK | @ | CLE | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 10 | 20% | 68% | Home Run; Baylor Scores | |
| 63 | 63 | 10 | 1 | 1976-07-24 | Jason Thompson | DET | @ | CLE | ahead 2-0 | t 3 | 1 | --- | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9% | 81% | Home Run | |
| 64 | 64 | 11 | 1 | 1976-08-06 | Rusty Staub | DET | CLE | tied 0-0 | b 4 | 0 | --- | 1 | 4 | 10 | 14% | 69% | Home Run | ||
| 65 | 65 | 12 | 1 | 1976-08-16 | Amos Otis | KCR | CLE | tied 0-0 | b 1 | 0 | -2- | 2 | 2 | 8 | 14% | 75% | Home Run; Cowens Scores | ||
| 66 | 66 | 13 | 2 | 1976-08-16 | Tom Poquette | KCR | CLE | ahead 2-0 | b 1 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14% | 87% | Home Run (CF-RF); McRae Scores | ||
| 67 | 67 | 14 | 1 | 1976-09-07 | George Scott | MIL | CLE | tied 0-0 | b 1 | 0 | 12- | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19% | 82% | Home Run; Joshua Scores; Yount Scores | ||
| 1977 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 68 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 1977-04-18 | Ed Kirkpatrick | PIT | @ | MON | tied 0-0 | t 2 | 2 | --3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 19% | 68% | Home Run; Oliver Scores/unER; Kirkpatrick Scores/unER | |
| 69 | 69 | 2 | 1 | 1977-04-23 | Gary Thomasson | SFG | @ | MON | ahead 2-0 | t 2 | 0 | --- | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8% | 79% | Home Run | |
| 70 | 70 | 3 | 1 | 1977-05-06 | Jerry Turner | SDP | MON | behind 0-1 | b 1 | 2 | --- | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11% | 51% | Home Run | ||
| 71 | 71 | 4 | 1 | 1977-06-01 | John Stearns | NYM | @ | MON | tied 2-2 | t 5 | 2 | 123 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 36% | 89% | Home Run; Millan Scores; Kingman Scores; Kranepool Scores | |
| 72 | 72 | 5 | 1 | 1977-06-06 | Biff Pocoroba | ATL | @ | MON | behind 1-4 | t 9 | 2 | --- | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1% | 1% | Home Run | |
| 73 | 73 | 6 | 1 | 1977-06-11 | Dave Concepcion | CIN | MON | behind 0-3 | b 2 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 7 | 6 | 16% | 41% | Home Run; Bench Scores | ||
| 74 | 74 | 7 | 2 | 1977-06-11 | Pete Rose | CIN | MON | behind 3-6 | b 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9% | 22% | Home Run | ||
| 75 | 75 | 8 | 1 | 1977-06-20 | Enos Cabell | HOU | @ | MON | behind 1-2 | t 2 | 2 | -2- | 2 | 2 | 5 | 20% | 57% | Home Run; Gonzalez Scores | |
| 76 | 76 | 9 | 2 | 1977-06-20 | J.R. Richard | HOU | @ | MON | ahead 5-3 | t 9 | 0 | --- | 1 | 9 | 1 | 4% | 97% | Home Run | |
| 77 | 77 | 10 | 1 | 1977-06-25 | Dave Parker | PIT | MON | tied 2-2 | b 3 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12% | 67% | Home Run | ||
| 78 | 78 | 11 | 2 | 1977-06-25 | Al Oliver | PIT | MON | ahead 3-2 | b 3 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14% | 84% | Home Run; Robinson Scores | ||
| 79 | 79 | 12 | 1 | 1977-08-11 | Bake McBride | PHI | MON | ahead 3-2 | b 2 | 0 | -2- | 2 | 1 | 9 | 11% | 82% | Home Run; Kaat Scores | ||
| 80 | 80 | 13 | 1 | 1977-08-30 | George Foster | CIN | @ | MON | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 7 | 19% | 67% | Home Run; Morgan Scores | |
| 81 | 81 | 14 | 1 | 1977-09-04 | Bob Watson | HOU | @ | MON | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 2 | 123 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 30% | 82% | Home Run; Cedeno Scores; Cruz Scores; Ferguson Scores | |
| 82 | 82 | 15 | 1 | 1977-09-25 | Greg Luzinski | PHI | @ | MON | ahead 6-4 | t 6 | 2 | --- | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9% | 86% | Home Run |
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