1991 Topps #991 Kevin Brown

 Todays missing Topps card is #991 Kevin Brown. 

Kevin made his MLB debut in 1990 with the New York Mets. In September 1990, he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers in the Charlie O’Brien deal. Kevin finished the 1990 season with the Brewers and played with them in 1991. He got selected off waivers in April 1992 by the Seattle Mariners and played with them in 1992, his final MLB season. 

Kevin never appeared on any Topps cards during his career. He got into the 1990 and 1991 Bowman sets, the 1990 Topps TV Mets issue, the 1992 Topps Stadium Club set, and the 1991 Topps MLB debut set. A good number of Topps issued sets to not get one in the flagship set. According to his Wikipedia page, he is a high school varsity baseball coach. When I searched ‘Kevin D Brown baseball’ a page came up that had his picture from the wiki page and the title Reverend Kevin D Brown. When I searched that, it led me to a FB page of a church called Journey Ministries in Sacramento, CA. The pictures look similar, and a post mentioned a birthday celebration for Pastor Kevin Brown on March 5, which indeed is the same as the aforementioned pitcher. 

So I guess after baseball he became a pastor at some point as well. 

Kevin is missing 2 cards from the 1990 Topps Traded set (Mets and Brewers), one from the 1991 Topps set, one from the 1992 Topps Traded set, and one from the 1993 Topps set. 

Besides the 1992 Topps custom, I’ve made Kevin’s 1991 Topps card,

his 1992 Topps Traded card,

and his 1993 Topps card. 

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-Jeremy