Joe Morgan
Joe Morgan is a former American baseball player and baseball broadcaster, who played as a second baseman.
Joe Leonard Morgan (September 19, 1943–October 11, 2020) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who played twenty-two seasons from 1963 to 1984, won back-to-back National League Most Valuable Player awards in 1975 and 1976, and was elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 1990. At five-foot-seven he was the shortest position player of his Cooperstown class.
Born in Bonham, Texas, the eldest of six children of warehouse worker Leonard Morgan and Ollie Morgan, he moved with his family to Oakland, California, at five. He played at Castlemont High School and Oakland City College, was signed by the Houston Colt .45s in 1962, and reached the majors at twenty.
A November 1971 trade to Cincinnati for Lee May placed him at the heart of Sparky Anderson's "Big Red Machine." Morgan combined a low on-base discipline with rare power for a middle infielder, leading the National League in walks four times and on-base percentage four times, and won five Gold Gloves at second base. The Reds took World Series titles in 1975 and 1976, the second sweep against the New York Yankees.
He finished his playing career with the Astros, Giants, Phillies, and Athletics, posting 2,517 hits, 689 stolen bases, and a .392 on-base percentage. He moved to broadcasting in 1985, calling games for the Reds, Giants, ABC, NBC, and ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball from 1990 to 2010. He died in Danville, California, of polyneuropathy at 77.
The name Joe is an English diminutive of Joseph, from the Hebrew Yosef, meaning "he will add" or "God shall add." He used Joe on every baseball card and broadcast credit of his life.
About the name Joe
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Abbreviation Of Joseph.