Thomas Leo Browning passed away today. The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer, former All Star, Perfect Game Thrower™, and World Series champ was 62 years old.
Tom Browning was, in so many ways, the player who defined an era of Reds baseball that, to date, stands up as one of the greatest in the long and storied history of the franchise. He was not the biggest, did not throw the hardest, and rarely pitched with a season-long quality that would even sniff the ‘ace’ category - yet somehow, he was ever-present, an absolute workhorse, and the sum of all his parts and wits found ways to be better than his opponents more often than not.