Jack Morris

Happy Baseball Birthday...Jack Morris

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:22:00 GMT

Source: johnsbigleaguebaseballblog.blogspot.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Jack Morris belongs in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. There, I said it. Today's Baseball Birthday, Jack Morris, was born on May 16th, 1955, in St. Paul, Minnesota. After playing college baseball at Brigham Young University, Morris was drafted in the 5th round of the Amateur Draft by the Detroit Tigers in 1976. Jack Morris made his big league debut for the Tigers on July 26th, 1977, after the Tigers called him up to replace an injured Marl Fidrych. In 7 games with the Tigers in '77, Morris was 1-1, with a 3.74 ERA, striking out 28 batters while walking 23. After going 3-5 in '78, Jack Morris won 17 games, starting a streak of 14 or more wins, between '77-92. Morris won 20+ games three times, and no pitcher won more games in the 1980's (162), than Jack Morris did. Morris was a young pitcher on very young Tigers teams of the late '70's and early '80's, teams that included Lance Parrish, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell, and Kirk Gibson. Morris logged 3,824 innings in 549 big league games, striking out 2,478 batters. On April 7th of the 1984 baseball season, Jack Morris threw a no-hitter at Comiskey Park in Chicago, vs, the White Sox. That no-hitter was the centerpiece of a record 35-5 start by the Tigers, which led to the '84 East Division, American League, and World Series Championships. Jack Morris left the Tigers after a disappointing 15-18 season in 1990, and in 1991 he led the Minnesota Twins to the World Series Title, winning ...

Happy Birthday Jack Morris!!!

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:57 GMT

Source: bapple2286.wordpress.com --- Thursday, May 16, 2013
Happy Birthday Jack Morris!!! Jack Morris turns 58 years old today. The winningest pitcher of the 1980′s Morris compiled a 254-186 record during his career en route to 5 All-star appearances and 7 Top 9 finishes for the Cy Young award. Morris won 3 World Series championship titles during his career – 1984, 1991, and 1992. In ’91 he won the World Series MVP award as he led Twins to the championship capturing 2 of the team’s 4 wins. Happy Birthday Mr. Morris. ...

fr. jack morris, sj memorial award recipients honored

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:36:49 GMT

Source: jvcnorthwest.org --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Father Jack Morris, SJ, co-founder of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps movement, inspired thousands of Jesuit Volunteers throughout his life. The Father Jack Morris, SJ Memorial Award memorializes Jack’s legacy of dedicated work for peace and justice in solidarity with those living on the margins of society. Recipients of the Father Jack Morris, SJ Award are former Jesuit Volunteers who have lived out the values of Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest and have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to working for the common good and bringing about peace and justice. We were thrilled to honor Denny (Copper Valley, AK ’69-70, Hays, MT ’70-71) and Joan Duffell (Great Falls, MT ’70-71) with this award at our 8 th Annual Seattle Event “A Celebration of Service” on Sunday, April 21 st at Seattle University. Congratulations Denny and Joan! The post fr. Jack Morris, sj memorial award recipients honored appeared first on Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest . ...

Young Morris Dancers and folk character Jack-in-the-Green perform at May Day festival

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:49:54 GMT

Source: www.hamhigh.co.uk --- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A young troupe of Morris dancers, with members as young as 15, entertained more than 100 people in Primrose Hill. ...

Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris apologizes to Clay Buchholz for spitball accusations

Sun, 12 May 2013 07:41:29 GMT

Source: www.torontosun.com --- Sunday, May 12, 2013
Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris apologized to Boston Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz a week after accusing him of throwing spitballs. ...

Jack Morris apologizes for spitball accusations

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:36:37 GMT

Source: slam.canoe.ca --- Saturday, May 11, 2013
Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris apologized to Boston Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz a week after accusing him of throwing spitballs. ...

Jack Morris sorry for spitball accusations

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:36:37 GMT

Source: en.canoe.ca --- Saturday, May 11, 2013
Saw video of arm substance. ...

Clay Buchholz and Jack Morris spoke before the Blue Jays-Red Sox game.

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:27:39 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Saturday, May 11, 2013
Clay Buchholz and Jack Morris spoke before the Blue Jays-Red Sox game. Clay Buchholz, Jack Morris Iron Out Differences, Pitcher Has No ‘Ill Feelings’ Toward Anyone nesn.com BOSTON -- Following Clay Buchholz’s last start against the Blue Jays, a media firestorm ensued because of accusations made against the right-hander. Everything is back to being peachy, though. Toro... ...

Clay Buchholz on Jack Morris: ‘I don’t have any ill feelings towards anyone’

Sat, 11 May 2013 03:26:37 GMT

Source: fullcount.weei.com --- Friday, May 10, 2013
Clay Buchholz (AP) Prior to Friday’s game between the Red Sox and Blue Jays, Toronto broadcaster Jack Morris conferred with Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz behind the cage during batting practice. The two discussed the analyst’s comments during a broadcast last week, in which Morris accused Buchholz of doctoring the baseball over the course of a seven-inning shutout effort — comments that set off something of a firestorm regarding the use of rosin and perhaps a substance such as BullFrog sunscreen on the mound to improve the pitcher’s grip. What did Morris say to Buchholz? “It was alright. Nothing really. He was just confirming that he wasn’t bashing me for anything in any way. That was basically it,” said Buchholz. “I said it from the beginning. I don’t have any ill feelings towards anyone. They’re people who are supposed to talk about stuff and that was just the topic that got a lot of attention I guess. It was fine. “It was definitely better to do it that way than to hear it through somebody else’s words. It was basically nothing said. Just said he wasn’t trying to take away from my pitching or anything, just something that he saw and he would have said it regarding who was on the mound.” Buchholz, who is 6-0 with a 1.60 ERA, is slated to face the Blue Jays again on Saturday. He seemed more concern about the task of picking up on the dominance exhibited by Jon Lester (who threw a one-hit complete-game shutout) than with the comments ...

Jack Morris apologizes to Buchholz

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:59:37 GMT

Source: espn.go.com --- Friday, May 10, 2013
BOSTON -- Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris, who last week in Toronto said that Clay Buchholz was throwing a spitball after watching video of Buchholz's performance, said that he sought out the Red Sox pitcher and spoke to him before Friday night's game here. "I told him I was sorry that I had taken attention away from what he was doing -- that's not what I was trying to do," said Morris, a former major league pitcher who won 254 games in the big leagues. ...

"Where’s Jack Morris been all these years? He finally gets a job up there in Toronto and..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:42:49 GMT

Source: mlboffseason.com --- Tuesday, May 07, 2013
“Where’s Jack Morris been all these years? He finally gets a job up there in Toronto and he’s got to make statements like that?” - Dennis Eckersley did not take kindly to Jack Morris accusing Clay Buchholz of throwing spitballs. ...

Glad to see Dennis Eckersley rip Jack Morris over his Clay Buchholz accusations?

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:24:41 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Friday, May 03, 2013
Glad to see Dennis Eckersley rip Jack Morris over his Clay Buchholz accusations? Dennis Eckersley tells Jack Morris to 'zip it' over Clay Buchholz accusations fullcount.weei.com Dennis Eckersley took umbrage to comments by Jack Morris in which the former Cy Young Award-winner suggested that Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz had been doctoring the baseball with a substance on his left forearm. ...

Is Buchholz cheating? Jack Morris thinks so

Fri, 03 May 2013 06:15:20 GMT

Source: espn.go.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
I love a good cheating accusation. I mean -- peanuts, hot dogs, hating the Yankees, pitching inside and cheating: Aren't they all a fundamental part of the game we love? Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris thinks Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz is throwing a spitball, telling ESPNBoston's Gordon Edes: "What do you think? Look at the pitches. Fastball at 94 that goes like that," Morris said, his hand darting swiftly down and away. "On a fastball? ...

This is not the first time Dennis Eckersley and Jack Morris haven’t seen eye-to-eye

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:50:30 GMT

Source: fullcount.weei.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
On Thursday, a form of ex-pitcher-on-ex-pitcher crime took place, when Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley ripped longtime American League opponent Jack Morris for comments the latter made as a Blue Jays broadcaster suggesting that Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz was using an illegal substance to doctor the baseball. Eckersley suggested that Buchholz’s command of a wide range of pitches served as a rebuttal to the notion that he was using a foreign substance, and suggested on NESN that Morris’ claims to the contrary were “clueless.” “When you throw a spitball, the ball falls off the table, and you know it right away. The hitters didn’t complain, but Jack Morris is. I think Jack Morris should zip it,” Eckersley said on NESN. “I feel sorry for Buchholz to even have to deal with this. I’m styling here, and you’re taking away from me, a guy that can’t even make it to the Hall of Fame yet, and he’s chirping over there — zip it.” (More of Eckersley’s comments are here .) Interestingly, this is not the first time that Eckersley and Morris have had a public — and personal — disagreement. In 1992, when Eckersley’s Athletics played Morris’ Blue Jays in the ALCS, Morris denounced Eckersley’s conduct on the mound — most notably, his enthusiastic fist-pumping after a strikeout of an opponent — as “Little League stuff.” Prior to the following game, Eckersley and Morris spoke on the field. Eckersley offered the following account of the conversation in ...

Jack Morris accuses Boston's Buchholz of cheating

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:55:23 GMT

Source: www.cbssports.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
Jack Morris accuses Boston's Buchholz of cheating ...

Dennis Eckersley Calls Jack Morris ‘Clueless’ for Claiming Red Sox Cheat, Tells Former Pitcher to ‘Zip It’ (Video)

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:30:07 GMT

Source: nesn.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
Dennis Eckersley feels very strongly that Clay Buchholz is not cheating, and he has not been afraid to make himself heard about that fact. After dismissing Toronto broadcaster Dirk Hayhurst as a “ career minor leaguer ” before Thursday’s game, Eck showed no restrain in similarly going after Blue Jays television announcer (and former MLB pitcher) Jack Morris . Check out Eckersley’s pointed comments directed toward Morris from Thursday’s Red Sox Extra Innings LIVE . ...

Eckersley rips Jack Morris over Buchholz

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:21:01 GMT

Source: www.weei.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
NESN analyst Dennis Eckersley took umbrage to comments by Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris , in which the former Tigers Cy Young award winner suggested that Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz had been doctoring the baseball with a substance on his left forearm. read more ...

Dennis Eckersley tells Jack Morris to ‘zip it’ over Clay Buchholz accusations

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:17:20 GMT

Source: fullcount.weei.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
Dennis Eckersley NESN analyst Dennis Eckersley took umbrage to comments by Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris , in which the former Tigers Cy Young award winner suggested that Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz had been doctoring the baseball with a substance on his left forearm. During Thursday night’s broadcast on SportsNet of the Sox-Jays game, Morris reportedly expounded on comments by former Jays pitcher Dirk Hayhurst that Buchholz had used an illegal substance. Eckersley became incensed about Morris’ accusations, noting that it would be impossible for Buchholz to command his arsenal in such dominating fashion if he were using an illegal substance on the ball. “I was upset during the game when we found out what was happening with Jack Morris, and the more I saw it, the more I started thinking about it, it made me more and more angry about Jack Morris. To me, that’s clueless on his part,” Eckersley said on NESN. “If he knew anything about Buchholz, he knows how nasty he is. His ball doesn’t dance all over the place. The guy paints. He’s got nasty stuff. [Morris] should know that, and he’s gotten carried away. It becomes about Jack Morris almost. “Where’s Jack Morris been all these years, anyway?” Eckersley continued. “He finally gets a job up there in Toronto and he has to make statements like that and take away from what this kid has done? I think it’s wrong. He’s pitched long enough to know. Guys, you talk about stick-’em, whatev ...

Jack Morris accuses Buchholz of throwing spitball

Fri, 03 May 2013 02:27:19 GMT

Source: cincinnati.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster Jack Morris, who was just at Montgomery’s Green Diamond Gallery in February, said Thursday that he watched video after Wednesday night’s Boston-Toronto game and is convinced Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz is throwing a spitball, according to a story by ESPNBoston.com’s Gordon Edes. Here’s an excerpt from Edes’ story: Morris said ... ...

Jack Morris accuses Clay Buchholz of throwing spitballs

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:47:19 GMT

Source: www.yardbarker.com --- Thursday, May 02, 2013
Prior to the Red Sox-Blue Jays series finale in Toronto on Thursday night, former Blue Jays pitcher and current commentator Jack Morris accused Boston starter Clay Buchholz of throwing spitballs during Boston's 10-1 win on Wednesday night. Jack Morris, a former World Series hero and a Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster, said Thursday that he watched video after Wednesday night's game between the Jays and Red Sox and came away convinced Boston pitcher Clay Buchholz is throwing a spitball. Morris said he didn't notice it during Wednesday's telecast. "I found out because the guys on the video camera showed it to me right after the game," he said. "I didn't see it during the game. They showed it to me and said, 'What do you think of this?' and I said, 'Well, he's throwing a spitter. Cause that's what it is." During the outing, Buchholz shut down the Jays, allowing only two hits in seven shutout innings, striking ou... ...