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Brother Mordecai Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n October 19th 1876 \u2013 February 14th 1948<\/p>\n Member of:<\/p>\n Edward Dobbins Lodge #164, Lawrenceville, Illinois<\/p>\n <\/p>\n American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager during the first two decades of the 20th century (known as the “dead-ball era”). Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth, Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand, and in the process gained a colorful nickname. He turned this handicap into an advantage by learning how to grip a baseball in a way that resulted in an exceptional curveball, which broke radically before reaching the plate. With this technique he became one of the elite pitchers of his era.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n