Brown VS the Board of Education

By GEORGE KING September 4, 2004 --
A selfish and immature act by the most self-centered man in baseball may have cost the Yankees the AL East last night at Yankee Stadium.

Angered about twisting his left knee at first and taking a Miguel Tejada grounder off his right forearm, Kevin Brown took out his frustration by punching a clubhouse wall near Joe Torre's office with his left hand and breaking the fifth and third metacarpal bones during a 3-1 loss to the Orioles.

It's very disappointing," a sour-faced Cashman said. "It's an issue we are dealing with that we shouldn't have to be dealing with. It was an unnecessary thing and there is no excuse for it."

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