Mordecai Brown by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

Mordecai Brown

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For the idea that somewhere in Pittsburgh, in the middle of a season filled with riots and recriminations and death threats and pennant pressure, a kid still believed baseball was something noble.

Brown lay down in his berth, pulled the curtain closed, and let the rails carry him toward morning.

On September 26, starting pitcher Ed Reulbach became the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to pitch two shutouts on the same day. That day, the Cubs played a doubleheader against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Reulbach pitched both games to completion, which the Cubs won by scores of 5–0 and 3–0.