Brian Givens

Brian Givens is a fascinating figure to me less for his stat line than for the asterisk on his story. A towering left-handed pitcher out of Lompoc, California, he reached the Milwaukee Brewers but is remembered most as a replacement player who crossed the picket line during the 1994-95 strike. That's a heavy thing to carry, and I don't think it's mine to judge cleanly; fifteen years chasing the game says plenty about hunger. He's a reminder that baseball careers aren't just box scores, they're choices made under pressure, and his sits in that uncomfortable, very human gray zone I find hard to look away from.

Name (English)

Brian Givens

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・ギブンス

Reading

ぶらいあん・ぎぶんす

Born

November 6, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

Origin

Lompoc, California, United States

Height

198 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Overland High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%96%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9

Tags

• California
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.