Chester Milton "Chick" Brandom (March 31, 1887 – October 7, 1958) was a

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. He played for the

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and

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."Chick Brandom Statistics and History"
baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 9, 2011.

Baseball career

Brandom started his professional baseball career in 1905 with the Missouri Valley League's

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. He went 8–11."Chick Brandom Minor League Statistics & History"
baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 9, 2011. The following season, he played for the Independence Coyotes of the

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, and in 23 games, he went 16–5 to lead the circuit in wins. In 1907, Brandom moved up to the Kansas City Blues of the class A

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; his record dropped to 6–7. He stayed with Kansas City in 1908 and was 17–13 when the

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's Pittsburgh Pirates purchased him in August for $5,000. Brandom made his major league debut on September 3, and he finished the year at 1–0 with a 0.53

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in three appearances. The following season, he made 13 appearances for the Pirates and again won his only decision. Pittsburgh won the NL pennant and the

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that year. Brandom returned to the Kansas City Blues in 1910. That season, he went 20–15 and set career-highs in wins, games (54), and

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(337). However, he slumped to 1–14 in 1911 and then went to the International League, where he won eight games in 1913 and 10 games in 1914. In 1915, Brandom made it back to the majors with the

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's Newark Peppers. He went 1–1 with a 3.40 ERA in 16 games. His playing career ended after the season. He was a

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of the Corpus Christi Seahawks of the Gulf Coast League in 1926.

Personal life

Brandom was 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighed 161 pounds. He had a birth defect in which his second toe overlapped his first toe, and this became painful when he threw a pitch.Finoli, David and Ranier, Bill (2010).
When Cobb Met Wagner
'. McFarland. pp. 203–245. Brandom was born in

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, in 1887, and he died in

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, in 1958.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandom, Chick 1887 births 1958 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Pittsburgh Pirates players Newark Peppers players Baseball players from Kansas People from Comanche County, Kansas Minor league baseball managers Muskogee Reds players Independence Coyotes players Kansas City Blues (baseball) players Independence Champs players Jersey City Skeeters players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players