Mordecai Brown Quotes

Mordecai Brown — American Athlete born on October 19, 1876, died on February 14, 1948

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, nicknamed Three Finger or Miner, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher during the first two decades of the 20th century. Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth, Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand, and in the process gained a colorful nickname. He turned this handicap into an advantage by learning how to grip a baseball in a way that resulted in an exceptional curveball, which broke radically before reaching the plate. With this technique he became one of the elite pitchers of his era... (wikipedia)

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

Mordecai Brown Quotes

Mordecai Brown Quotes

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