Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like so many victims of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Morgan MacDonald, 27, has had his good periods and his bad as the disease runs its course. Last month officials at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., pronounced him "well enough to walk," and spent three weeks looking for an extended-care facility that could handle his needs. They could find none. Finally, Shands got in touch with the AIDS/KS Foundation, a private group in San Francisco that helps those with the affliction. On Oct. 4, Shands paid for flying MacDonald, accompanied by a doctor and two social workers...
...sixth inning of the third game and figured in the winning run when Shortstop Ivan DeJesus erred on a quick Ford bouncer that scored Benny Ayala. It was not unpleasant seeing Ford get up to do these wonderful things, just as, for at least a while, Joe Morgan was a joyous sight. "I have never been this close to going away," he says quietly, but the proud manner in which he adds, "I can still hit the fastest pitches in our league," suggests he will not quit at 40 at that. If his batting average was .230 for the season...
...Phillies decide this winter that 22-year-old Juan Samuel is ready to play second base every day, Morgan may travel on. He has packed quite often in the past four years but frequently takes the pennant with him. "I go from Cincinnati to Houston, and Houston finishes ahead of Cincinnati. I go from Houston to San Francisco, and San Francisco finishes ahead of Houston. I go from San Francisco to Philadelphia, and Philadelphia finishes ahead of San Francisco...
When he homered in Games 1 and 3, Morgan was exuberant. But after the Phillies slipped behind, two games to one, he was angry. "We got ahead and then sat back, and waited and waited, and got beat," Morgan said. "That's the way you get beat. The Orioles didn't get here by quitting, and we didn't either." Baltimore won the fifth game too, 5-4, again with scant help from its finest player, Eddie Murray. He and Mike Schmidt wore the same frown. (All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World...
...Morgan made the last out, a gentle streamer to second base. Baltimore was within one game of the championship. Of Perez and Morgan and Rose, Phillies Coach Dave Bristol had said, "Their leaves don't fall off in the autumn," but it was a coming-of-winter...