Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1916 — Famous Ball Player Visited Mr. and Mrs. Otis Crandall. [ARTICLE]

Famous Ball Player Visited Mr. and Mrs. Otis Crandall.

Mordicai Brown, for some years one of the greatest baseball pitchers in the business and who as a member of the old Cubs team was one of the most popular ball players that ever lived in Chicago, visited during the week with Mr. and Mrs. Otis Crandall, also formerly a great baseball pitcher for the New York Giants. Mr. Crandall and wife live at Goodland. Since the hard-hearted managers and the fickle fans relegated Mordicai and Otis to the rear and they joined the Federal League, where Crandall was playing with St. Louis and Brown with Chicago, the latter winning the pennant and St. Louis coming second. Brown won a little over half his games and Crandall won 19 and lost 10, which is a mighty good record. Since the Feds went out of business Crandall goes to the St. Louis Brownd and Mordicai goes to the Cubs, where he will have charge of the pitching - staff, but it is not probable will get into the game himself. The popularity of “Three-fingered” Brown, as Mordicai was so long called, will make him a drawing card for the Cubs. From Goodland he went to Rosedale, his boyhood home, where he uesd to shovel coal before he became a big leaguer.

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