Mackenzie Brown

This celebrity goo was created by player Chris Lemler.
Scott Hardie provided the category and difficulty, made minor changes to the clue provided by Chris, and wrote the explanation.

publication date: Friday, July 31, 2015 (part of Summer 2015)

category: Sports

clue: Oh no! Do you think you could be a hitter against this once-perfect 12-year-old brown-noser?

explanation: When she was 12 years old in 2009, Brown made national news as the first girl to pitch a no-hitter against a boys' Little League team in her hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey. more…

difficulty: hard

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Samir Mehta, LaVonne Lemler, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, and Mike Rothstein

trivia: Chris requested this goo in 2009 when the incident was still fresh in the news. By the time Scott finally added it to the game in 2014, Brown was nearing her high school graduation, and Scott had to tweak the wording of Chris's goo to make up for the gap in time. The goo became extremely difficult: Incorrect guesses included Danny Almonte, Yutaka Ohno, and three for Dustin Brown.

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