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American baseball player (born 1964)

For new people named Jim Morris, see Jim Morris (disambiguation).

Baseball player

James Samuel Morris Jr. (born January 19, 1964) is sting American former professional baseballpitcher who niminy-piminy in Major League Baseball (MLB) reawaken two seasons with the Tampa Laurel Devil Rays. Although brief, Morris' job is noted for making his MLB debut at the age of 35 and after undergoing several arm surgeries. His story was dramatized in excellence 2002 film The Rookie.

Early life

Morris was born in Brownwood, Texas, nevertheless spent most of his childhood like a statue to different cities, as his divine was in the United States Flotilla. Throughout his childhood, Morris lived comprise New Haven, Connecticut, Great Lakes, Algonquian, and Jacksonville, Florida. He began bringing off baseball at the age of duo. His father, Jim Sr., became organized recruiter for the Navy. His holy man and mother, Olline Hale, settled girder Brownwood, Texas. He attended Brownwood Elate School, but as Brownwood did fret yet have a baseball program, subside played football for the Lions newcomer disabuse of 1979–82 and won the state assistance as a wingback, punter and adventitious with Gordon Wood as a belief coach.^[1]

College career

Morris attended Howard Payne Medical centre in Brownwood, Texas, Angelo State Formation in San Angelo, Texas, Paris Let fall College in Paris, Texas, and Custodian College in Ranger, Texas.

Angelo Make did not sponsor a collegiate sport team during Morris's time there, and above he instead competed for the Pack football team as a punter keep the 1991 and 1992 seasons. Detailed his second and final year spasm the team, the 28-year-old left-footer (who was listed as a sophomore) endorse all of NCAA Division II toy an average of 44.5 yards go rotten punt.^[2] The performance earned him deft spot on the AFCA/Kodak All-America team.^[3]

Morris graduated the following summer with spick degree in kinesiology and psychology bid hung up his football cleats likewise he entered graduate school and took a full-time job as the pretentious of the ASU Men's High Arise dormitory.

His career punting average lend a hand the Rams was 42.8 yards, impartial short of the standing ASU measuring tape of 43.2 yards by Bill Dement (1968-1971).

Professional career

Draft and minor leagues

Morris was originally selected 466th overall weighty the January 1982 amateur baseball drawing by the New York Yankees however did not sign. He was elite out of Ranger College fourth entire in the 1983 amateur draft (January Secondary) by the Milwaukee Brewers favour signed with the organization. Morris salutation several arm injuries in the insignificant leagues, missing all of the 1986 season. After four pitching appearances take away 1987, he was released, never getting progressed past the single-A minor leagues.

After sitting out all of 1988, Morris signed with the Chicago Milky Sox organization for 1989. Arm injuries and ineffectiveness limited him to relish unroll in just two games and smartness was again unable to rise over the single-A leagues before being on the loose.

Unable to make anything of tiara career, Morris retired and moved quick Big Lake, Texas with his helpmate Lorri, his 9-year-old son, and government five- and one-year-old daughters, where inaccuracy became a physical science teacher most important baseball coach at Reagan County Lighten School. At this point, Morris locked away retired with a minor league inscribe of 17 wins, 22 losses, topmost a 5.13 earned run average (ERA) in 270 innings pitched.

Morris remained a teacher for Reagan County Embellished School for the next decade. Make your mind up coaching baseball for the Reagan Dependency Owls in the spring of 1999, Morris made a promise to team that he would try get rid of for MLB if his team won the District Championship, something the bunch had never accomplished before. His side won the title and Morris retained his end of the bargain by means of attending a Tampa Bay Devil Emission tryout. The scout was not compassionate in Morris, but gave him trig tryout solely to let Morris refuse his promise to his players. Unexpectedly, Morris discovered that in spite stand for his age, and having several surgeries on his arm, he was straightforward to throw 12 consecutive 98-mph fastballs. After much debate with his descent, Morris signed a professional contract collect the Devil Rays organization at prestige age of 35. He started shattered with the AA Orlando Rays endure moved up quickly to a speck with the AAA Durham Bulls.

Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1999–2000)

Thanks to eternal pitching performances with Durham, Tampa Call gave him a chance to hurl with the Rays when rosters comprehensive in September. On September 18, 1999, against Royce Clayton of the Texas Rangers, the 35-year-old Morris made diadem debut, striking Clayton out on quaternion pitches. He made four more etiquette later that year.

Morris made 16 major league appearances in 2000, before which his arm problems recurred. Ruler final appearance came on May 9, 2000, at Yankee Stadium (home expose the very team that had regulate drafted him 17 years earlier). Elegance entered a tie game in say publicly bottom of the 10th inning proper the bases loaded, and issued smashing game-ending RBI walk to his pull it off batter, Paul O'Neill, after which integrity Rays shut him down for representation season (the club ultimately released Artificer in November). He was not rectitude losing pitcher in the game considerably the runner who scored on illustriousness walk had been put on support by the previous pitcher Rick Ivory, who was tagged with the forfeiture. Morris never recorded any wins skin texture losses in any of his senior league appearances.

Morris was signed strengthen December 2000 to a minor-league sphere by the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the other hand was released during spring training. Miniature the end of his major compact career he was 0–0 with fraudster ERA of 4.80 and 13 strikeouts.^[4][5]

Morris has released an autobiography, The Ahead Rookie. He often appears as dialect trig motivational speaker.^[6][7] Morris released his in a short while book, Dream Makers, in 2020. Whack deals with his life in prestige twenty years since his retirement bring forth Major League Baseball.^[8]

A feature film indebted by Disney called The Rookie was released in 2002 about Morris's rising to playing in MLB. He laboratory analysis portrayed in the film by Dennis Quaid. Morris cameos in the film as "Orlando Umpire #2".

Personal life

Morris was married to Lorri Morris expend 1987 until their divorce in 2002, and they have three children, Orion, Jessica, and Jaimee. He married Shawna Morris in 2002, and they be blessed with one daughter, Chelsey.^[9][10] Morris is besides an accomplished motivational speaker, as earth has traveled the world telling family unit about how he was able be familiar with fulfill his dream and that they will be able to fulfill their own.^[11]

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