[Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, (Three Finger Brown), baseball player for Chicago National League, posed, standing, on baseball field] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, (Three Finger Brown), baseball player for Chicago National League, posed, standing, on baseball field], [1911] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c0/c076d1d50f31-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, (Three Finger Brown), baseball player for Chicago National League, posed, standing, on baseball field]
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Few pitchers of his era are as easily recognized as Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, known as Three Finger Brown, shown here standing on a ballfield. As a boy he lost parts of two fingers on his right hand in a farm accident, and the damaged hand gave him a grip that helped him throw sharp, unpredictable breaking balls. He pitched for Chicago's National League club, the Cubs, through most of the 1900s and was a mainstay of their staff during their pennant-winning years. This posed portrait is a more deliberate view than the action shots common in the Bain Collection, which is largely made up of news photographs.
| Created / published | [1911] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910.Photographic prints 1910. |
| Notes | George Grantham Bain Collection. Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. |
| Subjects | Brown, Three Finger,--1876-1948. Baseball players--Illinois--Chicago--1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,143 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168823 |
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