Four Finger Brown
 

I think we would all consider Mordecai Brown as the three finger Goat in MLB.

Agreed? If so, who is the four finger goat in baseball. Not five, just four.

Except for Brown, don't they all have 4 fingers...

And a thumb...

Phil,

Mordecai lost the majority of two fingers in a farm machine accident. According to your logic, he should be known as “Two Finger” Brown then.

Mr. Met.

2 good fingers + 2 half fingers = 3 fingers.

I'm guessing you were playing hooky from anatomy class that day in Medical school and out chasing girls or a little white ball.

Antonio Alfonseca has to be the 6 fingered GOAT.

I thought you were in the music business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVsW_6AomOQ

The song title is not "Don't Mess with Phil"

You are fair game.

I was a math major. So a pitcher with an ERA of 10.67 has 0 fingers, because none of the ones he claims are "good" fingers.

Well played sir…

Don't Mess With Frank

Sixto Lezcano is the 6 toe GOAT.

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And a card for the thread.
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I always thought his cards should come at a three finger discount.

Brian (or technically that would be a two finger discount?)

One-finger McGraw?

https://i.imgur.com/ajXL0ga.jpg

Frank, I would vote for Curt Simmons of the Phils as the GOAT with four toes. He cut one off mowing his lawn.

Obviously the rare and hard to find version of that card. I've been looking for that one for a while now. :p

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...lip%20book.jpg

One-finger Billy

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...C%20Martin.jpg

Not sure what this depicts!!!

Two-seam fastball thrown in a submarine pitch manner?

Actually, Brown lost one finger entirely, and two others were permanently deformed. See below--

One might conclude that the title of thread is correct then, if you consider the thumb a finger rather than just an opposing digit. Furthermore if the thumb is not a finger, then the “big toe” is a misnomer.

QED

On the topic of mutilated digits, one of my neighbors growing up was a destroyer commander during World War II who survived a kamikaze hit that killed everyone else on the bridge because he was wearing his flak vest and helmet. Talking to him a while ago, I noticed he was missing part of a finger. I asked him if that was related to the attack, and he said no, that was from the Battle of the Yamaha; Yamaha being the company that manufactured his lawnmower. He'll be 104 this summer; perhaps the good doctor can comment on the link between missing fingers and longevity.

Well played.

An amputee would be quite optimistic to expect to live until 104.

I have learned though that there are actually amputation injury lawyers and I’ll bet their statistics claim decreased longevity in the long run.;)

Sounds like an amazing fellow with stories for days.

Apparently we're all at risk of amputation unless we call this guy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgSbk6xXEAAzDSp.jpg

It works. I called him and no amputations since.

But you'll have fun, fun, fun 'til Basel takes your finger away.:D

All I know is we should all make that call or else suffer inevitable amputation.

Brian (note that there are 10 digits in his phone number...coincidence?)

Perhaps not, but Dr. Basel Refai has only one i.

If so, the optics are not good for this doctor and his billboard.

Brian

I'm surprised Dr. Refai isn't a mortgage broker.

Just wanted to give a plug for this biography of Brown's, which I just read. I would highly recommend it.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81PuyBb1YwL.jpg

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Finger-.../dp/0803218885
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bi...9780803218888/

"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 Mafia’s threats in 1908 mirrored the way he took life in general: with unflappable courage and resolve. Telling his story for the first time, Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown track Mordecai from the Indiana countryside to the coal mines, from semipro ball to the Majors, from the World Series mound back down to the Minors. Along the way they retrieve the lost lore of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers and chronicle one man’s determination to attain a dream that most believed was unreachable."

3 finger...

I figured an eligible digit challenged player would pop up in my head and I think I got one. Bobby Ojeda came to mind this morning but after I googled him I realized that his partially severed finger was successfully reattached so that didn’t work. I just now remembered that Carlos May had an accident in the military involving a finger so I googled him, he was cleaning a mortar as a Marine Reserve when it went off, obliterating most of his right thumb. It’s amazing that he was able to have a successful Major League career missing most of one thumb.

I'm a dead ball guy through and through...

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