Wonderful documentary.

This team would have far better with the name "Brown Sox," instead of "Browns." With a team name like that, you are bound to suck. 😐😐😐😐😐

So forgotten they cant find a picture as that one is the St. Louis Cardinals, complete with a young Stan The Man!

What's happing in St. Looey now? The Cardinals arent drawing well.

Very good documentary. My dad loved the Browns and, I'm told, I was there more than once.

What, no mention of the Browns' one-armed wartime outfielder, Pete Gray?

It was a wonderful program to see on KETC-TV and a wonderful job by Jon Hamm narrating this special.

Great video but saying STL doesn't talk about the worlds fair today is comical

"And I'd like to congratulate the St. Louis Cardinals on winning the N.L. Central. Notice I said the St. Louis Cardinals, not the St. Louis Browns." ~Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, 1996

No mention of Donald Barnes attempt to move the team to Los Angeles for the 1942 season? Only reason that literally did not happen was Pearl Harbor as mentioned in this documentary. But think LA could have had a MLB team and no need to move the Dodgers to SoCal 16 years later. I do feel the nickname of the team would have been changed from the Browns to the Angels. And yes, with the Angels, the only team on the West Coast, and before air travel was common, scheduling would have been extremely challenging.

That 1904 World's Fair was responsible for the ice cream waffle cone. It was so hot that the ice cream seller ran out of bowls. Meanwhile BECAUSE it was hot, the waffle guy wasn't selling anything. So the ice cream guy cut a deal and served the ice cream on the waffles. People found it easier to roll the waffle into a cone and balance the ice cream while they ate it. The coffee/tea guy ALSO wasn't selling anything. One patron didn't want to stand in the long line for cold drinks so he asked the tea guy to pour it over ice. Iced tea was later perfected here in the South.

I really enjoyed this documentary, but how did Pete Gray, a one-armed outfielder that played for the SLB's in 1945, hitting .218 with one arm, not get a mention?

Veeck was certainly one of a kind. Owned 3 MLB teams--Indians, Browns and White Sox

St Louis Browns- 1st in shoes, 1st in booze and last in the American League- a parody of a parody.

That was a great documentary

This doc is excellent. Very smart, professional, and well written. Who produced it? Did it get marketed? Btw, i was 10 when the family moved to st Louis (well, Clayton) in 1959, february. I only knew to root for Cards! Browns were gone! I wish i could have known them. But i did sit in Sportsmans bleachers, numerous times.

Hey Jason , that 50 Bowman Jackie is a looker for sure. Congratulations !

Good.

First they were the Old Milwaukee Brewers (1901), the St. Louis Browns (1902-53), then the Baltimore Orioles (1954-present).

Unfortunately narrated by hamm, A noted socialist anti semite.

Baltimore had it's own long history with its various iterations of Orioles teams. Some of the surviving Orioles from the 1890s were even at the 1954 festivities. Probably why they weren't eager to embrace the Browns history

Veeck had a fascination with Milwaukee . Made the White Sox play games there and tried to move them there also . Got foiled by the league then too.

Don Larsen made his ML debut with the Brownies their last year in St. Louis, before moving to Baltimore for the 1954 season.

Very well done. One piece of Browns history I have read was that they were planning to move to LA in the 1940-41 but that WWII disrupted those plans.

I was always a little surprised that the Browns didn't de-segregate their team before Brooklyn did. They had access to players and could have afforded them.

I don't think any true baseball lover has forgotten the Browns or their difficult history. It's the KC Athletics that time has forgotten...even fans old enough to recall their 1955-1967 days want to forget being screwed over by Arnold Johnson (NY Yankees stooge) and then Finley's antics turning them into a joke.

In the early 1900's, multiple cities besides St Louis supported two teams. It was actually quite common as the two leagues were separate entities and were not terribly cooperative, except for the WS and All-Star game. Boston (Red Stockings and Braves); Philadelphia (Athletics and Phillies), Chicago (White Sox and Cubs) and New York (Highlanders/Yankees, Giants and sort-of-Dodgers).

Wow. Does this ignore that the team now called the Cardinals originated in the American Association in the 1880's and was called the Brown Stockings? Then after the 1890~91 meltdown (caused by a US financial contraction and the rise/fall of the short-lived, "Players League"), the B.Stockins and a few others from the A.Assoc. were merged into the 12-Team National League in 1892 and by 1900 was called the Cardinals.

43:15 Gaedel never had an at bat in the majors, he had a plate appearance.

The only time the Browns got to the World Series was (1) during World War II, (2) against the Cardinals, and (3) they lost. It would make me sad if it wasn’t so funny. When are you going to get to Eddie Gaedel??

I guess you could say George Sisler hit for a -high-batting average in 1922. I’ll get my coat

The Browns didn't cease to exist. The team was sold to Baltimore and became the Orioles.

Baltimore Orioles

While collecting baseball cards in 1980 or 1981, I would also buy these team logo stickers. Each of those cards came with a WS caricature from the Fall Classic. I remember something about a record-setting collective strikeout total for the '44 series. The caricature was of shattered bats 😊

Love this doc, but surprised there’s no mention of Pete Gray.

11:10 "El choclo" playing in the background!

Great documentary

Good story on the Brownies but I wanted to know about Pete Gray and how he came to play for the Browns

A couple of my favorite stories about the Browns came from their owner Bill Veeck when I heard him speak years ago. The first one was that Veeck said he wanted to take the fences down at old Sportsmans Park. His reason was since the Browns couldn’t hit the ball over the fence, the other team shouldn’t be allowed to do it either. The second one was about how bad their attendance was. Supposedly, a man called the ticket office wanting to buy 20 tickets for that day’s game. As it happened, Veeck was the one who answered the phone. When the guy asked what time the game started, Veeck’s answer was, “what time can you get here”?

Every time I hear Branch Rickey's name I think of the coach from "Major League" who's character name was Lou Brown. "Give him the heater Rickey" 😂

I'm 75 yrs old and a devout STL Cards fan. I only remember the Browns through reading baseball history. I got a Browns hat in Cooperstown a few yrs ago; the sports shop there had every hat imaginable ( also got a Seattle Pilots hat "Short Flight Into History"). Wore my Browns hat to a game in DC last yr with Orioles hoping someone would notice; no luck. Going to see Orioles twice this season so I'll wear my Browns hat again.

Should have moved to Cleveland 😂

The Dollop Podcast made me look this up

I love the history of this team so much. I think it’s a crying shame Baltimore didn’t at least keep the name, but definitely a shame they killed the history of those great ol teams.

I've only heard the name Sr. Louis Browns, didn't know anything about them. This was wonderful, what a great story.

How can you possibly have a documentary on the St.Louis Browns and never mention Pete Gray even once???? Shame on you!

Man, I love Baseball! Even more than I hate MLB!! ;) Cheers from Montreal

A wonderful documentry that would impress Ken Burns. I'm not sure if you made it or just uploaded but regardless, thanks for sharing. It's a fun, funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking and melancholy piece of history. There is nothing worse for a sports fan, than losing your team. I should know. Cheers from Montreal, forever home of The Expos :)

I'm watching this while on the toilet, and plan to take the browns to the Super Bowl...

26:58 4F, that's laughable, they played baseball for a living, what disability or hardship could they possibly have that prohibited them from service.