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Price Brookfield
Price Brookfield 1948
Brookfield in 1948
Personal details
Born (1920-05-11)May 11, 1920
Floydada, Texas
Died April 17, 2006(2006-04-17) (aged 85)
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Nationality American

Emery Price Brookfield (May 11, 1920 – April 17, 2006) was an American professional basketball and baseball player.

Brookfield played college basketball for the West Texas A&M Buffaloes and Iowa State Cyclones. He played professionally for the Indianapolis Jets and Rochester Royals of the Basketball Association of America (BAA)) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for 61 games.

Brookfield also played baseball for the Borger Gassers of the West Texas–New Mexico League as a pitcher in 1942 and 1946.[1]

Brookfield served in the United States Navy during World War II. After his retirement from playing, he coached high school basketball, baseball and golf in Indiana. Brookfield died in his home in Pinehurst, North Carolina.[2]

BAA/NBA career statistics[]

Legend
  GP Games played  FG%  Field-goal percentage
 FT%  Free-throw percentage  APG  Assists per game
 PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season[]

Year Team GP FG% FT% APG PPG
1948–49 Indianapolis 54 .276 .720 2.5 8.2
1949–50 Rochester 7 .478 .923 .1 4.9
Career 61 .283 .739 2.2 7.8

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