Joe Morgan

“I have never seen anyone, and I mean anyone, play better than Joe has played this year,” Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson told reporters in 1975. Comparable in size to Dead Ball era players at 5-foot-7, 160 pounds, Morgan instead was perfectly suited to the artificial surface game of the 1970s, when he emerged as one of the key cogs in Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine.

Career: 268 HR, .271 BA, 689 SB (11th), 2B, HOF in 1990, 2xMVP, 10xAllStar, 5xGG, Reds/Astros/... 1963-1984, b:L/t:R, 4x BB Leader, born in TX 1943

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Joe Morgan never retired from baseball. He just stopped playing in games. He is 70, going on 45. What we remember - the left-handed batter swatting hits as easily as we swat flies -

CANDLESTICK CLASSICS / #3 / Day of Sweet Revenge / Joe Morgan's clutch homer knocked the Dodgers out of the pennant race on the final day of the 1982 season and made the Braves champions To commemorate the Giants' final season at Candlestick Park, the Sporting Green offers a countdown of the 10 most memorable baseball moments in the park's history. To drink in the true Candlestick experience on a June evening, which would mean buying three cups of hot cocoa: one to sip and two to use as hand-warmers.

10/3/82 LAD@SFG: Needing a win to earn a tie atop the division, the Dodgers fall short thanks to Joe Morgan's late homer

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.