Mordecai Brown

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by Fred

I know this is going to sound weird. All my life I wondered what Mordecai Browns pitching hand looked like. Finally! There's a picture of it in Hunt Auctions May 14, 2011 auction catalog. Page 33, item 102. Now for the others that are curious, go take a look and deny you were interested in seeing it.

The example from the Hunt auction:

[DixieBaseball]

Interesting photo's of 3 Finger Brown. Out of curiousity, how did he lose his finger and what happened to the other fingers ? (They middle finger is terribly crooked...)

[gnaz01]

Originally Posted by NashvilleBaseball

Interesting photo's of 3 Finger Brown. Out of curiousity, how did he lose his finger and what happened to the other fingers ? (They middle finger is terribly crooked...)

Check out the pinky, too

[Vintagecatcher]

If I remember correctly, his hand was damaged at a young age as a result of an accident with farm equipment.


Patrick

[shammus]

If I remember the story correctly, there was two seperate incidents, there was the accident with the farm equipment but there was a seperate time altogether where he slipped while running and broke a one of his remaining fingers, the middle one I believe. It never healed properly and appears crooked in the photos as a result.

[dstraate]

Half the fingers of Antonio Alfonseca, ten times the wins.

[PolarBear]

I've read his biography. Nothing special but a good read. He was a decent guy and there weren't that many in early sports just like there aren't that many today. He's one of my favorite players of the era, maybe my favorite, and an underrated HOFer.

Here's an excerpt from his biography, as quoted on his wikipedia page:

"According to his biography, he suffered two separate injuries to his right hand. The first and most famous trauma came when he was feeding material into the farm's feed chopper. He slipped and his hand was mangled by the knives, severing much of his index finger and damaging the others. A doctor repaired the rest of his hand as best he could. While it was still healing, the injury was further aggravated by a fall he took, which broke several finger bones. They were not re-set properly, especially the middle finger."