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title: "3 Mordecai Brown Quotes - Famous Baseball player"
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# Mordecai Brown

(1876–1948)   Baseball Player

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Mordecai Brown was a baseball player.

## Quick Facts About Mordecai Brown

Born October 19, 1876

Died February 14, 1948

Profession Baseball Player

## About Mordecai Brown

Major League Baseball player (1876–1948)... \| Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, nicknamed "Three Finger Brown" or "Miner", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager during the first two decades of the 20th century. Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth, Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand, and in the process

##  Quotes by Mordecai Brown

> [I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mordecai-brown/i-am-an-only-child-and-i-guess-was-spoiled-by-my-parents/)

[Mordecai Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mordecai-brown/)

[Am](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/am/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/mordecai-brown-88558_am_i-am-an-only-child-and-i-guess-was-spoil_5432.jpg)

> [I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mordecai-brown/i-guess-i-set-a-world-record-for-errors-i-had-a-pretty-good-arm-see/)

[Mordecai Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mordecai-brown/)

[Arm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arm/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fe/mordecai-brown-88558_arm_i-guess-i-set-a-world-record-for-errors_168324.jpg)

> [Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mordecai-brown/dad-played-with-me-a-great-deal-as-dads-should-do-and-our-chief-sport/)

[Mordecai Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mordecai-brown/)

[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/077/mordecai-brown-88558_baseball_dad-played-with-me-a-great-deal-as-dads_580153.jpg)

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