[GoldenAge50s]

My cousin, Moritz "Mort" Flohr, was a pitcher at Duke University and was signed right off the campus by Connie Mack in 1934 & went directly to the Philadelphia A's as a teammate of Jimmie Foxx.

Mort appeared in 14 games in 1934, 2 as a starter. He was a bit wild, walking 33 batters in 30.2 innings, developed some arm trouble along the way and never appeared in a ML game again after 1934.

Mort never had a baseball card, but had 2 poses on Geo Burke postcards. I have some personal index cards Mort signed for me in the mid-1980's, several of his signed PC's and an original 8 x10 Burke photo that was the basis of one of his PC's.

Any mementos from his playing days were all lost in a flood in the early 1970's is what he told me. Mort passed away in WNY State in 1994 at the age of 82.

Here are a few of the things I have: