Greg Hansen column: Former Sabino High and UA standout Tod Brown's incredible baseball journey continues at New Mexico, where his ability to make the most of what he has will come in handy yet again.
Greg Hansen A large tour bus with New Mexico license plates slowed to a stop outside Hi Corbett Field at 4 p.m. Tuesday. A logo on the bus said “Herrera Tours." A more fitting logo might’ve been “Incredible Journeys."
In baseball, home can be a fleeting term. Tod Brown, now the head coach of the New Mexico Lobos, has spent the last 30 years playing baseball in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Canada, and coaching the game in such non-baseball precincts as Bowling Green, Ohio, and Fargo, North Dakota. Many walk-on college ballplayers who don’t get off the bench for two seasons wouldn’t have stuck it out, as Brown did at Arizona. His determination paid off. By his junior year he was the Most Outstanding Player of the 1993 NCAA Regional. A year later he won six games and saved eight more, leading the team.
“I was just moping around when I ran into my old Sabino High chemistry teacher, Bruce Johnson, at the mall," Brown remembers. “He asked me to come and see him after New Year’s."That meeting led to Brown being hired to work at Sabino. He went to night school, got his teaching certificate, coached the freshman football team for Jeff Scurran and helped coach the Sabercats to the 1997 state baseball championship. He had found his life’s work.
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