etv78
September 16, 2012, 6:56am
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How would it change a pitch’s movement if the pitcher is missing a finger? How would it change if they’re missing the ring finger vs. middle finger?
This guy had an amazing curveball apparently. He’s missing an index finger though.
That’s nothing. Jim Abbot was missing five fingers!
OldGuy
September 16, 2012, 10:56pm
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Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown was reportedly a star pitcher early in the 20th Century whose effective curve ball was due to missing parts of two fingers on his throwing hand.
As manager
Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948), nicknamed Three Finger Brown or Miner, was an 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 (April 17, 1888), 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 ...
Well, what we do know is that having six fingers on each hand doesn’t have an effect on pitches…