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Lew Brown played 7 major-league seasons (1876-1884) as a C (248), 1B (118), OF (23), P (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 8 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | 18 | BSN | 45 | 195 | 23 | 41 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 22 | .210 | .556 | 84 |
| 1877 | 19 | BSN | 58 | 221 | 27 | 56 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 6 | 33 | .253 | .667 | 111 |
| 1878 | 20 | PRO | 58 | 243 | 44 | 74 | 1 | 43 | 0 | 7 | 37 | .305 | .777 | 158 |
| 1879 | 21 | PRO|CHN | 59 | 250 | 25 | 65 | 2 | 41 | 0 | 5 | 28 | .260 | .647 | 115 |
| 1881 | 23 | DTN|PRO | 45 | 183 | 25 | 44 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 7 | 29 | .240 | .613 | 94 |
| 1883 | 25 | LS2 | 14 | 60 | 6 | 11 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | — | .183 | .447 | 45 |
| 1883 | 25 | BSN | 14 | 54 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | .241 | .633 | 95 |
| 1884 | 26 | BSU | 85 | 325 | 50 | 75 | 1 | — | 0 | 13 | — | .231 | .574 | 95 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 | 20 | PRO | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18.00 | 13 |
| 1884 | 26 | BSU | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 36.00 | 8 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1876 | C | 45 | 0 | 192 | 45 | 40 | 4 |
| 1876 | OF | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1877 | C | 55 | 0 | 360 | 67 | 49 | 5 |
| 1877 | 1B | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1878 | C | 45 | 0 | 232 | 84 | 43 | 11 |
| 1878 | 1B | 15 | 0 | 178 | 3 | 11 | 7 |
| 1878 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1878 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1879 | C | 48 | 0 | 286 | 63 | 63 | 5 |
| 1879 | OF | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1879 | 1B | 6 | 0 | 72 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 1881 | 1B | 32 | 0 | 304 | 9 | 13 | 24 |
| 1881 | OF | 13 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1883 | 1B | 28 | 0 | 280 | 7 | 26 | 13 |
| 1883 | C | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1884 | C | 54 | 0 | 414 | 117 | 50 | 6 |
| 1884 | 1B | 33 | 0 | 322 | 11 | 21 | 9 |
| 1884 | OF | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1884 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Lew Brown ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #33 | catchers | 1878 | 158 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.