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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, a team that from 1906 through 1910 was arguably the best in baseball history. Brown's handicap enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered--the...

"A baby changes everything especially at Christmas "
War-weary Baron Paxton is on his way home to celebrate a peaceful holiday with his family. But when he finds an abandoned baby in his carriage with a note telling him the child is his there s no peace to be had in "Child of Mine?" by Virginia Brown
Ladies maid Adelaide Rowland finds herself on a Yuletide adventure, fleeing her home with her mistress s child, in "What Child Is This" by Jo Ann Ferguson. But what happens when her mistress doesn t meet her, as arranged? And a very curious and handsome gentleman takes a personal interest...