Joe Morgan Baseball player

Joe Leonard Morgan (born September 19, 1943) is 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 broadcaster for ESPN after his retirement, and now hosts a weekly nationally syndicated radio show for Sports USA. He is currently a special adviser to the Reds.

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Joe Morgan
Birth dateSeptember 19, 1943

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 21, 1963
Career endSeptember 30, 1984
batting sideLeft
former teams
Houston Astros
Oakland Athletics
position
Second baseman
teams
Cincinnati Reds
Houston Astros
Oakland Athletics
Philadelphia Phillies
San Francisco Giants
throwing sideRight

Joe Morgan on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.joemorgan8.com
  2. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/07/SP53776.DTL