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Mordecai Brown
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the Hall of Fame until 1949, the year after he died and 33 years after he retired from pro baseball, which is baseball's classic way of admitting it screwed up.
Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown is one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, and the fact that he's largely forgotten is not an accident of numbers. One theory is that it's an accident of narrative. Baseball remembers stories more than statistics,