The crooked pitch

Somehow in my searching for other stuff on the Interwebs I found a page on a relatively new bio of Hall of Fame pitcher Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown. I have no idea as to the quality of the book, but the cover is pretty awesome:

Some background on Brown here, and here's his stats. The bio page at the link notes that the Cubs teams of 1906-10 of which Brown was a key part won more games in a five year span than any other major league team. Bill James' Historical Abstract points out that the Cubs are also the winningest team over a 10 year period (1904-13); Brown was a member of the Cubs for each of those years, although his last good year was 1911.

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[Robb]

Don't forget that Mr. Burns requested Brown for his softball team full of ringers to play Aristotle Amidopolis's Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant team in the great "Homer at the Bat" episode. A high honor indeed.