Posted on 10/12/2020 8:47:56 AM PDT by shortstop
Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, a two-time World Series champion and two-time National League MVP All Star, died Sunday. He was 77. CBS Sports' Jim Bowden confirmed the news
Morgan played 22 MLB seasons, beginning his career with the Houston Astros (then the Colt .45s) in 1963. Morgan then made his way to the Cincinnati Reds, where he became a key member of the Big Red Machine, winning back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976. Morgan also won back-to-back NL MVP Awards both of those years.
Morgan was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1990.
One of my favorites! Having grown up in the Cincy area (Mason, OH), I have been a Reds fan all my life.
RIP, Joe!
I guess I am in the minority on this.
If Joe and/or his family did not want the general public to know what he died of, then it’s really none of our business.
This just makes me sad. RIP Little Joe.
Riverfront Stadium, Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, and The Vet in Philly all were examples of the new multi-use, artificial turf bowl stadiums (Busch Stadium too in St Louis). Certainly not aesthetic and that turf was rough on the ballplayers who had to perform on it (mores on football players obviously). And I note that less than forty years later they were all gone.
Yep, if Christ tarries, none of us are getting out of this alive.
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Morgan was a great player, and I am sure an upstanding person as well.... But the last time I heard him do commentating for a game, he was making some very overt Left wing political comments
I have an old box seat from down the right field line in Crosley. I had to refurbish it because there was a little rot on the seat while sitting out for three years before demolition with no maintannce on any of the old stadium fixtures. You will see them from time to time on ebay. I got mine in April of 1972. I just carried it out of the stadium.
Thank you for that tidbit. I never knew that.
I knew it bugged pitchers, because it distracted them.
RIP, Joe.
You were the best.
This one single trade brought four key players onto the Reds: Morgan, Denis Menke (3B), Jack Billingham (Starter), Geromino (OF).
I HATED Reiverfront. Spent much of my first game there roaming the stadium looking for a bratwurst and all they had were hot dogs.
RIP.
I went to high school and played some ball with one of Joe’s teammates, Gary Nolan, the big fire balling right hander who was part of the “Big Red Machine”. He had some great stories at the class reunions he was able to attend over the years. I admired Joe as a player but also enjoyed his color commentary on broadcasts after his retirement. I’m saddened by his and his contemporaries already mentioned passing. I suddenly feel very old.
Geronimo could kneel on the warning track with his feet against the center field fence and throw a strike to home plate.
I am from the Atlanta area, but the Reds were my favorite team as a kid, simply because Pete Rose was (and still is) my favorite athlete of my lifetime.
Around 1990 I made a work trip to the Cincinnati area and got to see a Reds game. What surprised me was how much it looked like the old Atlanta-Fulton County stadium.
I spent over half the game circling the walkway in the stadium, reminiscing about my own childhood memories. I thing another old stadium or two were built from the same general blueprints.
Riverfront was a multi-purpose, circular "cookie-cutter" stadium, one of many built in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s as communities sought to save money by having their football and baseball teams share the same facility. Riverfront, Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Shea Stadium in New York and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. all opened within a few years of each other and were largely indistinguishable from one another; in particular, it was often confused with fellow Ohio River cookie-cutter Three Rivers Stadium by sportscasters because of the two stadium's similar names and similar designs.
Watching their beloved sport turn into a mouthpiece for communists is killing them . . .
From like 1965 to 1975...there were tons of players that through the trade-process or AA/AAA development. I think the Reds could have had two major-league teams in Cincinnati and filled both with quality players.
Joes era of the Reds were awesome.
Pete Rose
Joe Morgan
Tom Seaver
George Foster
Cedeno
Sure. Saw Pete Rose in his rookie season. I am from there so saw every team play from about 1960 and 1983. Too bad I went away to college so I was not in Cincy for the 1975 and 1976 World Series victories. Crosley had a grass warning track that rose up on an angle so if you were not used to it, you fell down. Loved the grass. The Reds moved into Riverfront about two weeks before they hosted the All Star game. Hated Riverfront.
Him and Johnny Bench.
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