Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story by Cindy Thomson, Scott Brown

Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story


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Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story Cindy Thomson, Scott Brown
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press


On October 8, 1908, Mordecai Brown clutched a half-dozen notes inside his coat pocket. The message of each was clear: we’ll kill you if you pitch and beat the Giants. A black handprint marked each note, the signature of the Italian Mafia. Mordecai Brown—dubbed “Three Finger” because of a childhood farm injury—was the dominant pitcher for the great Chicago Cubs team of the early twentieth century. Brown’s handicap enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered—the curve ball that Ty Cobb once called “the most devastating” he had ever faced. How Brown responded to the ...

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