Word: morrision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a handful of major-league pitchers can throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was...
They sent Morris through two of their minor league teams, and then two weekends ago, the Devil Rays added him to their roster, making him the oldest major league rookie in nearly three decades. He got his first assignment pitching in relief against the Texas Rangers and struck out Royce...
Last weekend Morris accompanied his team to Yankee Stadium. He had thought about the place once, in 1982, when he was drafted by the Yankees in the 18th round. But the 18th round means never seeing Yankee Stadium, so he went to junior college for a semester instead. Then he...
A quiet, religious man, Morris didn't much talk about his dream. "I didn't tell my mom until two days before I got called up to the majors," he says. "I had a job and a family. To drop all of that for something that was just a dream...
Last weekend 20 fans, some of them teachers, stood outside Morris' Manhattan hotel waiting for him to sign photos. "It was weird that I'm signing report cards in May," he says, "and now I'm signing autographs."