Mordecai Brown by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Mordecai Brown

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greatest stress point of all was the right arm of Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown.

Chance knew the numbers. Everyone did. Brown was already past 250 innings, and the calendar still had weeks to go. But the Giants were still lurking, and the Cubs’ whole identity; this new, modern, merciless brand of baseball depended on never letting up. So Chance made the kind of decision only a young manager with absolute faith only in his select men would make; he began using Brown every second day.

It wasn’t quite madness, but it was close.