Four Finger Brown

[brianp-beme]

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?)

Originally Posted by vansaad

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

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

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.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

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

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

Brian

[BobbyStrawberry]

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

[michael3322]

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



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."

[Leon]

3 finger...

[Cliff Bowman]

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.