Mordecai Brown by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Mordecai Brown

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1012 – 1.39

1913 - 1.14

1914 – 1.72

1915 – 1.55

1916 – 1.90

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown

Five straight seasons below 2.00 ERA; 1906-1910; 1906: 1.04

1907: 1.39

1908: 1.47

1909: 1.31

1910: 1.86

Brown and Johnson are the only pitchers with five or more consecutive sub 2.00 seasons while throwing full workloads. Brown’s 1.42 over the five year period is lower than anyone else’s five year best. Sandy Koufax got into the Hall of Fame with much bowing on the strength of his last five years, after having seven poor to ordinary ones prior. But, even if we ignore the long lackluster prelude, the fact that he pitched half his games in a park difficult for hitters, and having pitched in an