This article is about the Baseball Hall of Famer. For the baseball player and manager, see Joe Morgan (manager). For other people named Joe Morgan, see Joe Morgan (disambiguation).
Baseball player
Joe Morgan
Morgan with the Cincinnati Reds in 1972
Second baseman
Born:(1943-09-19)September 19, 1943 Bonham, Texas, U.S.
Died: October 11, 2020(2020-10-11) (aged 77) Danville, California, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 21, 1963, for the Houston Colt .45s
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 1984, for the Oakland Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average
.271
Hits
2,517
Home runs
268
Runs batted in
1,133
Stolen bases
689
Teams
Houston Colt .45s / Astros (1963–1971)
Cincinnati Reds (1972–1979)
Houston Astros (1980)
San Francisco Giants (1981–1982)
Philadelphia Phillies (1983)
Oakland Athletics (1984)
Career highlights and awards
10× All-Star (1966, 1970, 1972–1979)
2× World Series champion (1975, 1976)
2× NL MVP (1975, 1976)
5× Gold Glove Award (1973–1977)
Silver Slugger Award (1982)
Cincinnati Reds No. 8 retired
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
Houston Astros Hall of Fame
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1990
Vote
81.8% (first ballot)
Joe Leonard Morgan (September 19, 1943 – October 11, 2020) was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / 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 each of those years. Considered one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Morgan was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.
After retiring as an active player, Morgan became a baseball broadcaster for the Reds, Giants, ABC, and ESPN, as well as a stint in the mid-to-late 1990s on NBC's postseason telecasts, teamed with Bob Costas and Bob Uecker. He hosted a weekly nationally syndicated radio show on Sports USA, while serving as a special advisor to the Reds.
Joe Leonard Morgan (September 19, 1943 – October 11, 2020) was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball...
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Fire JoeMorgan was a sports journalism criticism blog which focused primarily on baseball. It was updated regularly from 2005 through 2008. Although the...
Houston infield tandem of Menke and JoeMorgan continued to improve, providing power at the plate and great defense. Morgan had 15 homers and stole 49 bases...
during this time, and it included Hall of Fame members Johnny Bench, JoeMorgan and Tony Pérez, as well as the controversial Pete Rose, the all-time hits...
ABC in the 1970s and early '80s and NBC (teaming with Bob Costas and JoeMorgan) in the 1990s. During that time, he was a commentator for several League...
broadcast team of play-by-play commentator Jon Miller and color commentator JoeMorgan. Steve Phillips joined them for the 2009 season, and Orel Hershiser did...
was a July 2007 column ("Had Our Phil of Morgan") that criticized Major League Baseball Hall of Famer JoeMorgan, former color commentator for ESPN's Sunday...
acclaim in the second, much like The Office. Schur also wrote for Fire JoeMorgan, a sports journalism blog, under the pseudonym "Ken Tremendous". He resurrected...
Ken Tremendous, worked when he was writing for the sports blog Fire JoeMorgan. The logo displayed at the end of Fremulon-produced shows is accompanied...
by Sparky Anderson who had a star-studded lineup led by second baseman JoeMorgan. Catcher Johnny Bench, first baseman Tony Perez, and outfielder George...
the seventh and deciding game of the series on a ninth-inning single by JoeMorgan. It was Cincinnati's third World Series appearance in six years, losing...
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singles. It didn't help that the Reds' "table-setters," Pete Rose and JoeMorgan were a combined 1 for 28 through the first four games, when the Reds lost...
Jacobson. It stars Uma Thurman, Joe Manganiello, Maya Hawke, Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway, Samuel L. Jackson and Liv Morgan. The film was released by Shout...
Cake House, in the season finale of Shameless. In November 2014, Morgan was cast as Joe DiMaggio opposite Kelli Garner as Marilyn Monroe in The Secret Life...
marked in bold have at least 600 career stolen base attempts. Of those, JoeMorgan (in 1984) was the first to retire with a career stolen base percentage...
be it for the Orioles as 40-year-old JoeMorgan tied it with a home run in the sixth off Scott McGregor. Morgan became the second-oldest man to hit a...
Morgan Cole Wallen (born May 13, 1993) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He competed in the sixth season of The Voice, originally as...
International League Hall of Fame. They are owner Ben Mondor, manager JoeMorgan, outfielder Jim Rice, third baseman Wade Boggs, and then-team president...
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captain. He is also in the comedy duo Two Episodes of Mash, alongside Diane Morgan. In 2019 Wilkinson won a celebrity special version of The Great British...
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