Four Finger Brown

[vansaad]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

An amputee would be quite optimistic to expect to live until 104.

I have learned though that there are actually amputation injury lawyers and I’ll bet their statistics claim decreased longevity in the long run.

Apparently we're all at risk of amputation unless we call this guy.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by vansaad

Apparently we're all at risk of amputation unless we call this guy.

It works. I called him and no amputations since.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

It works. I called him and no amputations since.

But you'll have fun, fun, fun 'til Basel takes your finger away.

[brianp-beme]

All I know is we should all make that call or else suffer inevitable amputation.

Brian (note that there are 10 digits in his phone number...coincidence?)

Originally Posted by vansaad

Apparently we're all at risk of amputation unless we call this guy.

[darwinbulldog]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

All I know is we should all make that call or else suffer inevitable amputation.

Brian (note that there are 10 digits in his phone number...coincidence?)

Perhaps not, but Dr. Basel Refai has only one i.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog

Perhaps not, but Dr. Basel Refai has only one i.

If so, the optics are not good for this doctor and his billboard.

Brian

[BobbyStrawberry]

I'm surprised Dr. Refai isn't a mortgage broker.

[michael3322]

Just wanted to give a plug for this biography of Brown's, which I just read. I would highly recommend it.



https://www.amazon.com/Three-Finger-.../dp/0803218885
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bi...9780803218888/

"On October 8, 1908, Mordecai Brown clutched a half-dozen notes inside his coat pocket. The message of each was clear: we’ll kill you if you pitch and beat the Giants. A black handprint marked each note, the signature of the Italian Mafia.

Mordecai Brown—dubbed “Three Finger” because of a childhood farm injury—was the dominant pitcher for the great Chicago Cubs team of the early twentieth century. Brown’s handicap enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered—the curve ball that Ty Cobb once called “the most devastating” he had ever faced.

How Brown responded to the Mafia’s threats in 1908 mirrored the way he took life in general: with unflappable courage and resolve. Telling his story for the first time, Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown track Mordecai from the Indiana countryside to the coal mines, from semipro ball to the Majors, from the World Series mound back down to the Minors. Along the way they retrieve the lost lore of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers and chronicle one man’s determination to attain a dream that most believed was unreachable."

[Leon]

3 finger...