Brown scored an incredible 279 goals for Albion between 1963 and 1981, despite playing in midfield throughout his career.
The Oldham-born Baggies hero made 574 league appearances for the club but admits his finest moment for the Throstles came in The FA Cup.
"Winning the FA Cup in 1968 was the highlight of my career," Brown told wba.co.uk.
"We were underdogs on the day against a very good Everton side with Alan Ball and all the rest.
"It wasn’t the best of games football wise but it didn’t matter because Jeff [Astle] finished his goalscoring spurt off by scoring in the final with a cracking left foot drive -- that was enough to win.
"I’d seen it so many times, people going up those stairs to get the trophy and I’d always dreamt of it.
"At that time the FA Cup was the Holy Grail, it was big all over the world and we won it!”
Jeff Astle will always be synonymous with Albion’s Cup success that year as the powerful striker made history by scoring in every round, something Brown had done himself in the League Cup the previous season.
But the strike which ultimately saw the Baggies lift The FA Cup at Wembley in 1968 wasn’t without a hint of fortune admits Bomber.
"Jeff had a shot first of all and it hit Graham Lovett up the backside," said Brown, with a wry smile.
"It came back to him and Jeff smashed it in on the half volley right into the top corner but Graham Lovett, still to this day, says he has an assist for getting hit up the backside on the first shot."
As with most Cup successes, luck certainly played its part in Albion lifting the trophy that year.
The club’s leading scorer admits that, without some fortune in the First Round, the Baggies could have suffered an early exit rather than ending up raising the trophy at Wembley.
"We played Colchester away and right at the end they scored what we all thought was a good goal and we were all walking back to the half-way line thinking we were out of The FA Cup," recalled Brown.
"For some reason, and I don’t think to this day any of the lads know what it was, the referee disallowed it.
"John Talbut certainly thought we were out because he kicked the ball out of the ground in disgust.
"Then against Southampton [in the fourth round] John Osborne went off and Graham Williams [Albion’s captain and full-back] ended up in goal.
"The Southampton lads were taking the mickey out of him thinking ‘we will win this game now’ but we pulled together and got a great win.
"It was that togetherness that pulled us through and we finished up winning the FA Cup which was the highlight of my career."
