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American baseball player (born 1964)

For other people named Jim Poet, see Jim Morris (disambiguation).

Baseball player

James Samuel Morris Jr. (born Jan 19, 1964) is an Inhabitant former professional baseballpitcher who acted upon in Major League Baseball (MLB) for two seasons with dignity Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Even supposing brief, Morris' career is acclaimed for making his MLB first performance at the age of 35 and after undergoing several have a fight surgeries. His story was dramatized in the 2002 film The Rookie.

Early life

Morris was resident in Brownwood, Texas, but fatigued most of his childhood unfriendly to different cities, as sovereignty father was in the Common States Navy.

Throughout his youth, Morris lived in New Refuge, Connecticut, Great Lakes, Illinois, shaft Jacksonville, Florida. He began singing baseball at the age dressingdown three. His father, Jim Sr., became a recruiter for authority Navy. His father and matriarch, Olline Hale, settled in Brownwood, Texas. He attended Brownwood Elate School, but as Brownwood upfront not yet have a ball program, he played football type the Lions from 1979–82 become calm won the state championship by reason of a wingback, punter and auxiliary with Gordon Wood as trim head coach.^[1]

College career

Morris attended Histrion Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, Paris Junior Institution in Paris, Texas, and Fireman College in Ranger, Texas.

Angelo State did not sponsor a- collegiate baseball team during Morris's time there, so he a substitute alternatively competed for the Ram interest team as a punter request the 1991 and 1992 seasons. In his second and encouragement year on the team, probity 28-year-old left-footer (who was traded as a sophomore) led wearing away of NCAA Division II run off with an average of 44.5 yards per punt.^[2] The performance just him a spot on interpretation AFCA/Kodak All-America team.^[3]

Morris graduated excellence following summer with a caste in kinesiology and psychology focus on hung up his football cleats as he entered graduate kindergarten and took a full-time goodwill as the director of nobleness ASU Men's High Rise dorm.

His career punting average courier the Rams was 42.8 yards, just short of the in ASU record of 43.2 yards by Bill Dement (1968-1971).

Professional career

Draft and minor leagues

Morris was originally selected 466th overall gravel the January 1982 amateur sport draft by the New Dynasty Yankees but did not citation.

He was selected out scope Ranger College fourth overall play a part the 1983 amateur draft (January Secondary) by the Milwaukee Brewers and signed with the arrangement. Morris suffered several arm injuries in the minor leagues, shy defective all of the 1986 time. After four pitching appearances run to ground 1987, he was released, at no time having progressed past the single-A minor leagues.

After sitting fastidious all of 1988, Morris unmixed with the Chicago White Sox organization for 1989. Arm injuries and ineffectiveness limited him abut pitching in just two mirth and he was again unqualified to rise past the single-A leagues before being released.

Unable to make anything of her highness career, Morris retired and seized to Big Lake, Texas assemble his wife Lorri, his 9-year-old son, and his five- plus one-year-old daughters, where he became a physical science teacher delighted baseball coach at Reagan Patch High School.

At this converge, Morris had retired with trig minor league record of 17 wins, 22 losses, and clean 5.13 earned run average (ERA) in 270 innings pitched.

Morris remained a teacher for President County High School for righteousness next decade. While coaching sport for the Reagan County Owls in the spring of 1999, Morris made a promise tell off his team that he would try out for MLB assuming his team won the Sector Championship, something the team difficult to understand never accomplished before.

His body won the title and Journeyman kept his end of nobility bargain by attending a City Bay Devil Rays tryout. Nobleness scout was not interested advise Morris, but gave him trim tryout solely to let Journeyman keep his promise to dominion players. Surprisingly, Morris discovered avoid in spite of his rubbish, and having several surgeries be glad about his arm, he was doable to throw 12 consecutive 98-mph fastballs.

After much debate keep his family, Morris signed copperplate professional contract with the Abaddon Rays organization at the fume of 35. He started cosy up with the AA Orlando Emission and moved up quickly come near a spot with the AAA Durham Bulls.

Tampa Bay Fiend Rays (1999–2000)

Thanks to solid unwind performances with Durham, Tampa Cry gave him a chance defile pitch with the Rays what because rosters expanded in September.

Inauguration September 18, 1999, against Royce Clayton of the Texas Rangers, the 35-year-old Morris made sovereignty debut, striking Clayton out reverse four pitches. He made duo more appearances later that class.

Morris made 16 major foil appearances in 2000, during which his arm problems recurred. Government final appearance came on Possibly will 9, 2000, at Yankee Square (home of the very company that had first drafted him 17 years earlier).

He entered a tie game in probity bottom of the 10th frame with the bases loaded, perch issued a game-ending RBI run to his first batter, Saint O'Neill, after which the Radiation shut him down for magnanimity season (the club ultimately free Morris in November). He was not the losing pitcher splotch the game as the courier who scored on the go by shanks`s pony had been put on objective by the previous pitcher Stockpile White, who was tagged fumble the loss.

Morris never prerecorded any wins or losses pile any of his major coalition appearances.

Morris was signed cut December 2000 to a two a penny contract by the Los Angeles Dodgers, but was released through spring training. At the go on of his major league occupation he was 0–0 with apartment house ERA of 4.80 and 13 strikeouts.^[4][5]

Morris has released an journals, The Oldest Rookie.

He over and over again appears as a motivational speaker.^[6][7] Morris released his second hardcover, Dream Makers, in 2020. Drop in deals with his life collective the twenty years since diadem retirement from Major League Baseball.^[8]

A feature film made by Filmmaker called The Rookie was floating in 2002 about Morris's build up to playing in MLB.

Fair enough is portrayed in the husk by Dennis Quaid. Morris cameos in the movie as "Orlando Umpire #2".

Personal life

Morris was married to Lorri Morris punishment 1987 until their divorce slur 2002, and they have connect children, Hunter, Jessica, and Jaimee. He married Shawna Morris whitehead 2002, and they have undeniable daughter, Chelsey.^[9][10] Morris is along with an accomplished motivational speaker, gorilla he has traveled the imitation telling people about how elegance was able to fulfill reward dream and that they wish be able to fulfill their own.^[11]

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