R.I.P. - Joe L. Brown

Joe L. Brown, the Pittsburgh Pirates general manager who built two World Series championship teams and five National League division winners in the 1960s and ’70s, died Sunday in Albuquerque. He was 91. His death was announced by the Pirates. When Mr. Brown became the Pirates’ general manager after the 1955 season, he succeeded Branch Rickey, who had orchestrated pennant-winners with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers before embarking on a youth movement in Pittsburgh.  The Pirates had finished at or near the bottom of the league for the previous six seasons. But drawing on a core of young players, most notably the future Hall of Fame outfielder Roberto Clemente, and engineering shrewd trades, Mr. Brown put together the Pirates’ 1960 World Series champions.

source: New York Times