Ex-'Bow Brown new Kaimuki coach

By Dennis Anderson
Advertiser Staff Writer

A University of Hawai'i pitching legend has quietly surfaced as a head baseball coach at Kaimuki High School.

Left-hander Paul Brown, who pitched the only perfect game in UH baseball history on April 14, 1987, was appointed head coach at Kaimuki without any public announcement.

Brown, who was junior varsity coach at Kaimuki, inherits a team with little baseball experience at a school with few baseball achievements in recent years. The Bulldogs were 3-7 in the OIA East last season.

"We're trying to get afloat and establish a new program," Brown said. "Our goal is to be competitive. We're on a three-year course to start seeing results."

After earning All-Western Athletic Conference honors at UH in 1987, Brown was drafted in the second round by the Boston Red Sox and played minor league professional baseball for eight seasons, getting as high as Double-A. "I'm trying to teach the style of baseball I'm accustomed to," he said.

Brown has been conducting a free throwing school for more than 300 students for three years on Sundays at Kaimuki. "We work with players on the proper way to throw so they won't injure their arms," he said.