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Good morning! God endows each one of his creations with innumerable assets. Human being is perhaps the most complex of his creations. Thousands of researchers, psychologists, and philosophers spread over hundreds of years tried understanding and revealing the potential of human brain. It only revealed that that what is known is only a fraction of what is unknown. Here goes today’s story which would help us understand the power of one such creation....
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Story of a Farm Boy Who Became One of the Greatest Baseball Pitchers
Source: Internet and Books
Mordecai Brown was born in 1876 in a poor American farming family. As a child, he dreamt of becoming a big league baseball pitcher. His parents also supported him, as he showed a very good talent at it. He also used to work on the farm to support his family. One day, he accidentally slipped his right hand into a corn shredder that resulted in a total loss his index finger and also a severe damage to his middle finger. That didn’t make him leave his dream of becoming a pitcher. He learned to throw the ball with the fingers he had left.
Mordecai Brown—dubbed “Three Finger” because of his childhood farm injury—was the dominant pitcher for the great Chicago Cubs team, a team that from 1906 through 1910 was arguably the best in baseball history. Mordecai would throw the ball in such a way that it would come fast, dancing, twisting, turning, and gyrating up and down baffling the batters. Brown’s handicap actually enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered. He became one of the greatest pitchers of American baseball.
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Amazing attitude! Injured, but with the determination of continuing to be on the chosen goal with what he had, Mordecai converted his disaster into an opportunity. Well, each one of us has also been endowed with innumerable assets, leave alone the handicaps. What have we made out of them? Do we realize that we have far more strengths than what we actually put to use? Is it also the time that we could take a look at the handicaps and see if we could convert them into our assets as they are, if we can’t find a way out to correct them?
“When you start out with a disadvantage, you have to work harder to do what others take for granted In the end, that gives you an advantage.” —Ferguson Jenkins
To learn more about Mordecai Brown, please visit: http://www.mordecaibrown.com
The Best for you always!
With love and regards,
Siva
Good morning! God endows each one of his creations with innumerable assets. Human being is perhaps the most complex of his creations. Thousands of researchers, psychologists, and philosophers spread over hundreds of years tried understanding and revealing the potential of human brain. It only revealed that that what is known is only a fraction of what is unknown. Here goes today’s story which would help us understand the power of one such creation....
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Story of a Farm Boy Who Became One of the Greatest Baseball Pitchers
Source: Internet and Books
Mordecai Brown was born in 1876 in a poor American farming family. As a child, he dreamt of becoming a big league baseball pitcher. His parents also supported him, as he showed a very good talent at it. He also used to work on the farm to support his family. One day, he accidentally slipped his right hand into a corn shredder that resulted in a total loss his index finger and also a severe damage to his middle finger. That didn’t make him leave his dream of becoming a pitcher. He learned to throw the ball with the fingers he had left.Mordecai Brown—dubbed “Three Finger” because of his childhood farm injury—was the dominant pitcher for the great Chicago Cubs team, a team that from 1906 through 1910 was arguably the best in baseball history. Mordecai would throw the ball in such a way that it would come fast, dancing, twisting, turning, and gyrating up and down baffling the batters. Brown’s handicap actually enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered. He became one of the greatest pitchers of American baseball.
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Amazing attitude! Injured, but with the determination of continuing to be on the chosen goal with what he had, Mordecai converted his disaster into an opportunity. Well, each one of us has also been endowed with innumerable assets, leave alone the handicaps. What have we made out of them? Do we realize that we have far more strengths than what we actually put to use? Is it also the time that we could take a look at the handicaps and see if we could convert them into our assets as they are, if we can’t find a way out to correct them?
“When you start out with a disadvantage, you have to work harder to do what others take for granted In the end, that gives you an advantage.” —Ferguson Jenkins
To learn more about Mordecai Brown, please visit: http://www.mordecaibrown.com
The Best for you always!
With love and regards,
Siva
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1 comment:
The story of this farm boy excelling as baseball pitcher should be seen as an inspiring saga of determination to achieve. Several of us lean on to silly reasons masking our determination to achieve. We must admire all those scores of determined achievers like this farm boy whose determination remained rock solid even in the face of extreme physical disability.
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