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Mordecai Brown
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After the 1912 season, ailing from a knee injury, Brownie was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for 1913, where he went 11-12, with a very respectable 2.91 ERA, .03 off his team’s best, for the 64-89, .410, next to last Reds. He pitched in 39 games, 23 of them in relief.
The Reds were frantically changing their roster around, and had acquired a number of the aging stars from the 1906-1910 Cubs, including 32 year old shortstop Joe Tinker who led the team with a .317 batting average. Also there, but playing part time were Johnny Kling and Jimmy Sheckard,
It was nice to be near some of his old mates, but he was so far removed from the pennant chase he couldn’t see anywhere near the top where his old refurbished Cub team, led by Heinie Zimmerman who hit .313 and Larry Cheney who went 25-14 with a 2.57 ERA pitching 305 innings, were still hanging on in third place at 86-66, .555, 9.5 games out.
In “How to Pitch Curves,” written by Mordecai Brown, and first published in 1913, he leaves a farewell of sorts; “I would like to meet every one of you personally if such a thing were possible. But as it isn’t possible, I want you to believe right