Mordecai Brown by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Mordecai Brown

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dressed well, and they also dressed their wives and children well. An example of their discriminating taste in manners of dress and diet is their use of olive oil. No one in all of Parks County had ever used olive oil for culinary purposes, but the Nyesville miners used the genuine imported article and would have no substitute. The population was largely Catholic, though the United Brethren Church was the only religious center.

His childhood accidents; losing parts of two fingers in a feed chopper mishap; did not delay his pro baseball career start directly, but it shaped his pitching style and later fame.

Mordecai’s most familiar nickname was Three Finger, although he actually had four and a half fingers on his pitching hand.