Before he hit the head, Al Capone hit the baseballs for the semi-pro team in Brooklyn.

“Scarface” – born and raised in harsh downtown Brooklyn – stars as the first baseman to swing and fireball from 1916 to 1918 with his brother Ralph, according to Montreal gangster historian Mario Gomes, chief myalcaponemuseum, who recently found evidence of don’s double life on diamonds.

“The Capones are not born criminals. They participate in church events, raising funds, feeding the poor,” Gomes, 55, told The Post.

He said that he “discovered” the recent heroic machete horse heroism while researching old newspaper clippings about the Young Men Catholic Club, which is located on the streets of Prince and Concord in Park Slope next to St. Church. Michael.

Ralph Capone, who was born in Angri, Italy, started playing soccer in 1912 when he was 18 years old with a team called Algeria.

Al, who is five years younger, will “wherever Ralph goes” and both play for St. Michael in 1916, said Gomes. When the list began to be reversed, the brothers formed Al Capone Stars in 1918.

“He was the boss even then,” Gomes said.

Ralph began as a pitcher and teenager Al was the first right-handed baseman when the team played teams such as Dundees and Lockport A.C.

“The team wasn’t very good at the start; they lost most of their game, “Gomes said. But they found their steps as Al moved from the first base to the mound. The beginner gangster is muscular 5-foot-10 and 200 pounds. “He didn’t get fat until he went to Chicago,” Gomes said.

“That works better with Al pitching and Ralph playing first or third and switching with Charlie Fischetti’s cousin,” Gomes said. (It is unknown whether Fischetti has a rifle for his arms, but he will later get the nickname “Happy Trigger” while serving as his cousin’s bodyguard.)

Even as a soccer player, Capone brings heat – and makes headlines.

“The feature of this game is twirling Al Capone, who inhales 15 opponent batsmen. Al got three hits, including a double, “said the story of June 6, 1918 at Brooklyn Citizen about the 13-6 team’s victory over Lockport. The 1916 game attracted 3,000 fans.

“That’s local baseball which is covered by local newspapers – Residents of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Times-Union,” Gomes said. One reason this rich background has been avoided by historians for so long is because the name Capone is often incorrectly spelled as “Caponey or Carponey.”

Al gave up baseball in late 1918 when his girlfriend Mae became pregnant with their son Albert Francis “Sonny” Capone. The arrogant father received his famous facial scar four days after Sonny’s Dec 4th birth, when he was slashed three times on the left side of his head on Union Street and Fourth Avenue.

“That’s a shame,” Gomes said. “Al … should have commented on this Italian brother and he would not stop teasing her. He finally knew he was wrong.”

A few weeks later, Capone married Mae. “He must be serious,” said the historian.

Gomes – who has been credited in more than 25 crime books and even slept in the room where Scarface died – became obsessed with Capone after watching Robert De Niro’s frightening depiction of Chicago crime bosses in the 1987 film, “The Untouchable,” which depicts Capone’s rivalry real life with G-man Eliot Ness.

Regarding the horrific scene in which Capone drove a traitor wiseguy to death during a black tie dinner with a baseball bat, Gomes said it did happen – but in an Indiana middle house, not a luxury hotel in Chicago.

Gomes offers scouting reports of these two meanings in the gangster hall of fame:

“He is a strong hitter and he does a lot of attacks.”