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The previous American League relocation involved the same franchise, when the Milwaukee Brewers moved to St. Louis as the Browns, 53 seasons earlier. The season would also prove to be the last season of the Athletics franchise in Philadelphia, moving to Kansas City, Missouri the following season as the Kansas City Athletics .
This is a list of all players who have played for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. Prior to moving to Baltimore, the franchise was known as the St. Louis Browns . All-time roster
As of October 2024, there are only three living former St. Louis Browns players: Billy Hunter, Ed Mickelson, and Frank Saucier. The St. Louis Browns had an overall win–loss record of 3,414–4,465–96 (.434) during their 52 years in St. Louis. Two former St. Louis Browns players were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Don James Larsen (August 7, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American professional baseball pitcher.During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1953–54; 1965), New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962 ...
Players and managers listed in bold are depicted on their Hall of Fame plaques wearing a Orioles or Browns cap insignia. * St. Louis Browns or Baltimore Orioles listed as primary team according to the Hall of Fame † Earle Combs was a Browns coach in 1947.
Clinton Dawson Courtney (March 16, 1927 – June 16, 1975), nicknamed "Scrap Iron", was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1951), St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1952–1954, 1960, 1961), Chicago White Sox (1955), Washington Senators (1955–1959) and Kansas City Athletics (1961).
The last pilot in St. Louis Browns history, he was let go after the 1953 season when the Browns moved to Baltimore as the Orioles. He then signed as a coach for the White Sox for the 1954 campaign and was promoted to manager that September, when skipper Paul Richards left Chicago to take on the dual jobs of field manager and general manager in ...
Wertz started 1954 as a member of the newly formed Baltimore Orioles, which had moved from St. Louis, where they had played as the Browns. The Orioles played in the then mammoth Memorial Stadium , which frustrated the power-hitting left-handed batter.