Goodwin & Company - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Benjamin K. Edwards Baseball Card Collection.
Larry Corcoran is a name a lot of fans may be unfamiliar with, but for a brief time in the 1880s as a member of the Chicago White Stockings, he was quite a force on the mound. The right-hander tossed three no-hitters in the early 1880s, but he then had a hard and fast fall from grace. By '85 Corcoran had a dead arm and two years later he was completely out of baseball. Unrelated to his no-hitters, he is amusingly credited with coming up with the first method of communicating pitches with his catcher--something he accomplished by shifting his wad of tobacco to different places in his mouth.