Mordecai and Nick

 Here's a great picture of two underappreciated gentlemen: Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown and Nick "Eleven Finger" Myers. Nick is my cousin, and a great guy who I wish lived a lot closer. He, like my brother, is trapped in the ravenous maw that is Indianapolis, and, much like light in a black hole, it's difficult to escape from it. It will take serious dark magic to get either of them to visit when we've moved overseas (although their imminently superior better halves may make them see the error of their ways). One peculiarity (of many) of our relationship is that I send along the names and cemeteries of famous (or not so famous) baseball players who are buried in Indiana, and Nick magically tracks them down very quickly. Here he is at the graveside of Hall of Famer, Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown. Mordecai could throw an almost unhittable pitch, made possible by his hand being destroyed in a farming accident (kids, don't try this at home). I'll celebrate more of Nick's adventures in later posts.

Mordecai's career stats: 239-130. 2.06 ERA. 271 complete games. 55 shutouts. 56.9 WAR. Played for the Cincinnati Reds for one season (an important factor in Nick's adventures). Brown is buried in Terre Haute, Indiana. Oddly, while Nick visited Mordecai's grave he didn't take the opportunity to visit the Eugene V. Debs Museum (he's still a work in progress - Nick, not Eugene).