Delos Hight Brown was a Major League Baseball

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 player for the Chicago White Sox

Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

. He was born in Anna, Illinois

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Anna is a city in Union County, Illinois, United States. Located in Southern Illinois, the population was 5,136 at the 2000 census. The city is known for being tied to its close neighbor Jonesboro, together known as Anna-Jonesboro. Anna is well renowned for the Anna State Mental Hospital or the...

, and attended Millikin University

Millikin University

Millikin University is an American co-educational, comprehensive, private, four-year university with traditional undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, fine arts, and professional studies, as well as non-traditional, adult degree-completion programs and graduate programs in...

. In 1914, he became captain of the Millikin baseball team and led them to a conference championship. He was then signed by the White Sox.

Brown appeared in one major league game, on June 12, 1914. He was a pinch hitter

Pinch hitter

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 and struck out

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 in his only at bat

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. Afterwards, he played the rest of the season for the Decatur Commodores

Decatur Commodores

The Decatur Commodores were a professional minor league baseball team based in Decatur, Illinois. They played, with sporadic interruptions, from 1900 to 1974 in a variety of minor leagues, but spent the majority of their existence in the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League , later joining the...

 of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League and batted

Batting average

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 .192 in 63 games. His organized baseball career ended the following season.

Brown died in Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, in the state of Illinois, within the Southern Illinois region. It is located at the junction of Illinois Route 13 and U.S. Route 51, southeast of St. Louis, Missouri, on the northern edge of the Shawnee National Forest...

, at the age of 72.

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