Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WRIST WRESTLING MEN below 140 Dough Morgan 140-160 Lawton Cooper 160-180 John Tuke 180-200 Chris Ecker 200-220 Steve Hollman above 220 Frank Russo...
Most high quality players such as Fred Lynn, Joe Morgan, and Tom Seaver have signed multiyear contracts providing between $175,000 to $275,000 in actual annual salary. Given the tremendous revenues available to baseball franchises, these salaries are not unreasonable. Of course, other players of far less proficiency receive in excess of $100,000 per year. These men are cashing in on the owners' paranoia that all their players will desert for greener wallets. The wave they are riding will soon break when management realizes that .250 hitters are a dime a dozen, certainly not worth...
When Cincinnati Second Baseman Joe Morgan comes to bat, his eyes widen noticeably, a palpable sign to the man on the mound that Morgan is studying him with the intensity of a leopard crouching in a tree. On the bases, he measures the movements of the game just as keenly: taking the millisecond advantage, then streaking toward a stolen base, judging the parabola of a teammate's hit before springing around the bases, sliding in just ahead of the throw. Joe Morgan, the National League's Most Valuable Player for two years in a row, is surely...
Erving, Simpson and Morgan are the finest athletes in their sports, men of huge physical gifts, with great dedication to the honing of their arts and remarkable mental and emotional resiliency under pressure. They have much in common, most obviously that they are black. As superstars nonpareil, they are both inheritors and exemplars-the legatees of black athletes whose greatness moldered in Jim Crow obscurity, and the new idols of American sports culture...
...characteristics of blacks. That's why blacks wear long socks. We have skinny calves, and short socks won't stay up. I'll argue with any doctor that physically we're geared to speed, and most sports have something to do with speed." Joe Morgan also sees some differences: "I think blacks, for physiological reasons, have better speed, quickness and agility. Baseball, football and basketball put a premium on those skills. I don't know the reason why, but we are clearly superior in that...