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TITANS HIRE MANAGER: Bobby Brown takes charge for 2022 Frontier League season

The 47-year-old Brown has more than 20 years of professional baseball experience as a player, coach, scout and manager.

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Bobby Brown will be the Ottawa Titans Baseball Club manager for the 2022 season.

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Steve Brook was hired to be the first manager for the Titans, but the team dropped out of the 2021 Frontier League season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And Brook, on a one-year contract, decided to move on.

The 47-year-old Brown has more than 20 years of professional baseball experience as a player, coach, scout and manager. He debuted as a coach with Allan Hancock College in 2007, before getting his first managerial job with the Las Cruces Vaqueros of the Continental Baseball League in 2010. After a brief stop in the North American League in 2011, Brown joined the American Association, where he’d stay for nearly a decade — with the Abilene Prairie Dogs (2012), Amarillo Sox (2013-2014), Amarillo Thunderheads (2015) and the Lincoln Saltdogs (2016 – 2019). He was named manager of the year in 2017 when he guided the Saltdogs to a 58-40 record and a Central Division championship.

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Brown left the Saltdogs after the 2019 season to become the director of baseball operations and hitting coach for the Frontier League’s Gateway Grizzlies. Brown was hitting coach for the Pioneer League-champion Missoula PaddleHeads in 2021.

Brown was an outfielder at the University of Oklahoma, where he hit .362 in 1995 as his team got to the College World Series. Later that year, he signed a professional contract with the Frontier League’s Springfield Capitals. After a strong finish to the season, Brown had his contract purchased by the Kansas City Royals organization. From 1998-2005, he would go on to play for seven different teams before retiring. In his playing career (he was with the Winnipeg Goldeyes from 2000-02 and the Saskatoon Legends in 2003), he hit .301 with 368 RBI.

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