Mordecai Brown

Society For American Baseball Research ^ | Last revised: May 4, 2021 (zp) | Cindy Thomson

[kawhill]

With Brown leading an extraordinary pitching staff, the Cubs from 1906 through 1910 put together the greatest five-year record of any team in baseball history. His battles with the Giants’ Christy Mathewson epitomized the bitter rivalry between two teams that just about matched each other man for man.

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TOPICS: History; Sports
KEYWORDS: centennial; mordecai; peter

[ClearCase_guy]

Dead Ball Era is my favorite. Lots of colorful characters. It was a different game back then.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Here's the first time I ever heard of Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, in the classic softball episode of The Simpsons.

At the time I thought he had lost two fingers in a farming accident or World War I. I wasn't too far off LOL

[ComputerGuy]

Some pitches are simply unhittable.
No one ever said that about any of mine.

[sopo]

“Forty-six years after Mordecai Brown died, his relatives, led by great-nephews Joe and Fred Massey, erected a three-foot-high granite stone to mark the birthplace of Nyesville’s famous son”— are you a little underwhelmed? At least Haman’s gallows as erected were 80 feet tall.

[Bernard]

My high school coach was famous for saying, “Throw strikes they can’t hit!”

[kawhill]

I just got a book at Christmas titled baseball legends of all time, opened the book and read about this man.

[sopo]

I remember reading about him with my brother on June 13,1959, the day my grandpa died, not far from kawhill; we’d shopped at a bookstore that AM and got a book about all the hof’ers, of course no distinction about veterans’ committee, etc. “Big Train” Walter Johnson, I can still see the shaded pencil drawing from that book in my mind’s eye.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Mordecai Brown's Baseball Reference Page

[kawhill]

Thanks for the link. Got a new book at Christmas about baseball players, opened the book up and there he was.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Once you've finished it, these are the two best--by popular acclaim--books on ballplayers:

* Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times

* The New Bill James' Historical Baseball Abstract