"Chris (Brown) is a fascinating guy -– gloriously talented, in some ways a better all-around athlete than Darryl (Strawberry), but Chris couldn't get along in pro baseball. In some ways, he had the opposite problem as Darryl -– he was a prude, no drinking, no drugs, the whole 1980s baseball scene seemed to shut him down. The word in baseball was that Chris wouldn't play hurt, that he was somehow not tough or manly. He was called Chis 'Downtime' Brown. He left baseball prematurely, and made his living operating a huge crane in Houston. Now, he's driving an 18-wheeler, in Baghdad, working as a civilian employee of Halibourton. So that tells me Chris is a pretty tough guy, a brave guy, but that his values and the values of pro sports did not mesh." - Author Michael Sokolove (Michael Sokolove Interview on michaelsokolove.com)