Mordecai Brown

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                                        Gerneral Info

Born-Mordecai Peter Centenial Brown

Date-October 19th 1876

Postion-Pitcher

Height-5'10"

Weight-175LBS

Death-February 14th 1948

                                        Pitching Stats


 Year Ag Tm  Lg  W   L   G   GS  CG SHO  GF SV   IP     H    R   ER   HR  BB   SO  HBP  WP  BFP  IBB  BK  ERA 
 1903 26 STL NL   9  13  26  24  19   1   2  0  201.0  231  105   58   7   59   83   6   6   880       0  2.60  
 1904 27 CHC NL  15  10  26  23  21   4   3  1  212.3  155   74   44   1   50   81   6   5   848       0  1.86  
 1905 28 CHC NL  18  12  30  24  24   4   6  0  249.0  219   89   60   3   44   89   1   2   997       1  2.17  
 1906 29 CHC NL  26   6  36  32  27   9   4  3  277.3  198   56   32   1   61  144   4   2  1062       1  1.04  
 1907 30 CHC NL  20   6  34  27  20   6   7  3  233.0  180   51   36   2   40  107   6   4   881       0  1.39  
 1908 31 CHC NL  29   9  44  31  27   9  12  5  312.3  214   64   51   1   49  123   5   6  1180       0  1.47  
 1909 32 CHC NL  27   9  50  34  32   8  15  7  342.7  246   78   50   1   53  172   7   9  1302       0  1.31  
 1910 33 CHC NL  25  14  46  31  27   6  14  7  295.3  256   95   61   3   64  143   4   6  1188       0  1.86  
 1911 34 CHC NL  21  11  53  27  21   0  24 13  270.0  267  110   84   5   55  129   6   5  1108       0  2.80  
 1912 35 CHC NL   5   6  15   8   5   2   6  0   88.7   92   35   26   2   20   34   1   0   366       0  2.64  
 1913 36 CIN NL  11  12  39  16  11   1  21  6  173.3  174   79   56   7   44   41   1   1   702       1  2.91  
 1914 37 TOT FL  14  11  35  26  18   2   8  0  232.7  235  106   91   8   61  113   5   5   973       1  3.52  
         SLM FL  12   6  26  18  13   2   7  0  175.0  172   73   64   7   43   81   5   4   724       1  3.29  
         BTT FL   2   5   9   8   5   0   1  0   57.7   63   33   27   1   18   32   0   1   249       0  4.21  
 1915 38 CHI FL  17   8  35  25  17   3   9  4  236.3  189   75   55   2   64   95   7   6   952       0  2.09  
 1916 39 CHC NL   2   3  12   4   2   0   7  0   48.3   52   27   21   0    9   21   4   2   203       0  3.91  


 14 Yr WL% .648 239 130 481 332 271  55 138 49 3172.3 2708 1044  725  43  673 1375  63  59 12642       4  2.06 




                                        Three-Fingers

When Brown was little, he was working on a farm, and lost 2 of his fingers due to a machinery accident.

                                        With the Cubs

Brown was brought up to the Majors at the age of 26. He was brought up after a spectacular season in the MinorLeagues. Due to him only having three fingers, he threw what is know called a SplitFingerFastball. He was most productive from 1904 to 1912. During this strech he won 186 games. He won 20 games or more 6 times, and pitched in 2 WorldSeries. In a Pennant-deciding game against the NewYorkGiants in 1908, ChristyMathewson pitched against the Cubs Jack Pfeister. Pfeister got off to a bad start and was taken out and Brown was put in. He didn't allow any runs for the time he was in, and the Cubs won 4-2. The Cubs went on the win the Championship. Brown finished his career with 239 wins in only 13 seasons.

                                        Fun Fact

He was mentioned in the 17th episode of the third season of the Fox hit T.V. show The Simpsons.