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Mordecai Brown
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when Mr. Burns lists three ringers he wants for his company's softball team; Honus Wagner, Cap Anson, and Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown. Smithers has to point out that they are not only retired, but long dead. He was referenced again by Mr. Burns in the episode "The Last Traction Hero."
In 1999, he was named to the Major League Baseball All Century Team.
ERA BELOW 2.00
Perhaps Mordecai’s best individual accomplishment was the consistency of posting low ERA’s; which is undeniably the single most important measurement of gauging a pitcher’s performance.
Pitchers with more than 5 straight sub 2.00 ERA seasons
The great Walter Johnson, considered by many the greatest American League pitcher of all time and inducted into the Hall of Fame among the first elite five, went under 2.00 seven consecutive years from 1910-1916, though his aggregate for those years is higher at 1.74 than the 1.56 Brownie posted in the seven years from 1904-1910, his 2.17 in 1905 breaking the consecutive aspect of the streak.