Joe Morgan
Joe Morgan
Joe Leonard Morganis a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984. He won two World Series championships with the Reds in 1975 and 1976 and was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in those years. Considered one of the greatest second basemen of all-time, Morgan was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990. He became a baseball...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth19 September 1943
CountryUnited States of America
Teams draft mostly college players now, ... and a black kid from a poor family can't go to college unless he gets a scholarship. He can get one in basketball or football, but not in baseball.
We did almost everything we talked about doing at the start of the game. We knocked the ball around and created all sorts of chances. We just couldn't put anything away.
There's not place for them (hurricane survivors) to put a bed.
That suicide squeeze reminds me of the time that Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, Secretariat and I had to buy an anniversary gift for President Nixon...
We have a few holes to fill, but with a little time together, we'll be fine.
I don't believe in the Prophecy. I haven't read it, and I won't, because it's wrong. I know. I'm in the Hall of Fame.
Of course I noticed it. How could you not? But they're not the only ones. There are two or three teams that didn't have any African-American players this year.
No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.
Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.
I happen to agree with them. That group did want (Boston to win). But that doesn't mean everyone feels that way. I respect this team.
We'll keep it here as long as we have to...to get it full.
It's not just the home runs, but stamina, the way the game is played. Little things don't matter - speed, stealing bases.
When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
There's a perception among African-American kids that they're not welcome here, that baseball is not for inner-city kids. It's not true, and I hate that the perception is out there.