Mordecai Brown by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Mordecai Brown

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These judgements are not based on the totality of the player’s career, but on the player’s five or more best consecutive seasons, with at least three years corresponding with his team’s five-year run of success; or four years for teams like the 1949– 56 Dodgers or the 1991–97 and 1998–2005 Braves, whose achievements span seven or eight years.

Only one of the eight core position regulars on this team; second baseman Johnny Evers, has a century plus legacy, and no other has even a half century legacy for his best consecutive years as a player covering at least three between 1906 and 1910. Of the five pitchers on the Cubs’ roster for all or most of those years, Three Finger Brown has a century plus legacy and Ed Reulbach a half century legacy among the NL’s best pitchers.