If you would like to make overseas baseball a long-term career and lifestyle, we recommend taking a page out of Tim Brown’s playbook. Since 2012, Tim has been traveling the world playing baseball, foregoing a promising independent professional baseball career for overseas baseball. Today at 37 years old, he continues to seek new adventures and new countries every season. To-date has played in Australia x 5, Austria, Argentina, Croatia x 2, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Slovenia, South Africa, x 2 and Sweden. Most recently he spent a few months coaching in Egypt during the 2024-2025 off season and has now signed to play in France in 2025. In this episode, Tim shares with us why he has decided to make this a life choice and how he is able to continue competing at a high level. One thing for sure is that whenever the dust settles on Tim Brown’s career, he will have made a major impact on the global game and fondly remembered by all those who were lucky enough to meet him.
Fun fact: Tim is our longstanding active member and is now part of the BBJO staff.